Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riot was a walking and talking gathering from its beginning. Progressing up Mill Street between Lowell and Winthrop Houses, the spring affected frolickers took up the traditional cry of "Reinhardt," and more men poured out of the dormitories in addition to a few wastebaskets full of water from the Puritan upper windows...
Henry Purcell composed at a time when the mediaeval religious tradition of the Renaissance had disintegrated into a purely secular art. The English Restoration, especially, was accompanied by an important efflorescence of secular music. One can easily appreciate the role of the Puritan Revolution in creating the new spirit. The seventeenth century Puritan, with his austere morality and his mystic absorption in God, could neither enjoy music nor understand its function. To him music was a sensual pleasure, and as such was a barrier to the contemplation of eternal truths. It had no place in the Church service. In this...
...ransack the Coolidge file of Frank W. Stearns, Boston department store tycoon and Coolidge's political deus ex machina; he talked to dozens who knew Coolidge. For his labors, Biographer Fuess has assembled more facts than did his livelier rival, William Allen White, whose Coolidge biography, A Puritan in Babylon, was published...