Word: puritans
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...contrast, while Harvard has been a Boston institution since its Puritan beginnings, the local accent has never caught on here. Instead, Harvard has historically embraced the more decadent, waspish ethos of the Boston Brahmin elite. We live in a land of regattas and finals clubs—far more John Forbes Kerry than Will Hunting. If there is an accent that has defined Harvard over the years, it is one of haughty pretension that characterizes the sermons of Reverend Peter J. Gomes...
...double-D twin attention rockets that helped blast her to stardom. (In life Smith was coy about the specifics of her plastic surgery--its existence confirmed, grimly, by the medical examiner after her death--even if she was not shy about displaying the results.) We have a Puritan suspicion of people who improve on what nature gave them. FX's Nip/Tuck both glamorizes and moralizes about plastic surgery. Last year Hillary Clinton dealt with a smear that she had had work done, just as in 2004 John Kerry was attacked with Botox rumors. (As cosmetic work becomes more common...
...Puritan through and through, Mather saw Harvard as a training ground for Congregational ministers. But he went unsupported in his attempt to insert a clause into the college charter that required future presidents to be orthodox New England Congregationalists. Mather’s attempted sacrifice of the college’s well-being for his own personal beliefs was characteristic of an earlier view of leadership. But changes were...
...American than Betty Suarez. On ABC's hit comedy-soap Ugly Betty, she's a fashion-magazine assistant who is distinctly unfashionable--chunky sweaters, frizzy hair, bear-trap braces--but succeeds through good old Yankee values like perseverance, optimism and hard work. Smart and sweet-hearted, she embodies the Puritan-Shaker-Quaker principle of valuing inner good over outer appearance. She's as Norman Rockwell as a chestnut-stuffed turkey. The actress who plays her is even named America Ferrera...
...Blood” updates Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic text “The Scarlet Letter.” Running this past weekend at the Agassiz Theatre, the play explores the modern stigma of being a mother of illegitimate children.Strict Puritan mores are replaced with the doctrine of personal responsibility and the disdain for welfare mothers. Hester Prynne is transformed into Hester La Negrita (Jenné B. Ayers ’10), an illiterate homeless mother of five who lives on the fringes of society, under a bridge. Instead of being forced to wear a scarlet...