Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brief respite from a quarter century of Puritan austerity, the Class of '33 embarks today on a four-day 25th Reunion embellished with straw hats, class ties, plastic badges, and special parking privileges, courtesy of the Cambridge Police Department...
...away, and the stuff is not there. In the theater, where it ran 208 performances in 1924-25, Desire Under the Elms was properly furnished with a dark and womblike set, and the spectator could feel himself shut up in the incestuous nightmare at the core of the puritan mentality. But in this picture the atmosphere is dissipated in the irrelevant vastness of the VistaVision screen, and almost all the emotional pressure is lost...
Josiah Quincy was a Puritan in the truest Harvard sense, and mixed his education with political gamesmanship. He served at one time (the Beacon Street era) as a reform mayor of Boston, and was subsequently relegated to Washington's House of Representatives. He was a Federalist...
...play some ball"); di Mag's girl, a progressive schoolteacher who starts the whole town talking with her sex talks to second graders; a real-estate shyster who turns swampland into pay dirt by renaming it "Powderhorn Hill"; a toothsome teen-age tidbit named Comfort Goodpasture whose Puritan blood is brought to a boil by a guitar-strumming Army corporal from Altus, Okla...
Margaret emerges no mere victim, no strong woman exacerbated by a weak husband and a hard fate. Hers is a willful, self-righteous strength gloating over weakness in others; hers is a puritan nature full of repressed sexuality and cankering resentments, and the conviction that what has happened is retribution for sin. Seen as a pathological figure, Margaret is valid and often effective. Moreover, the play highlights how abnormal she is by setting her against a blowzy, easygoing neighbor woman and a sane and knowledgeable neighborhood doctor. Yet, even in Siobhan McKenna's severe, unbending portrayal, Margaret seems something...