Word: puritans
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...sale of liquor on Sundays in Massachusetts is a new phenomenon. Since the revision of the “blue laws” in 2004—statutes codified by New England’s early Puritan settlers which mandated Sabbath observance, prohibited blasphemy, and forbade gaudy dress—Massachusetts businesses are permitted to sell alcohol on Sundays...
Although Bloom insisted in an interview prior to the reading that he would not pack the capacious old church, he managed to come close and filled the puritan hall with his slow, methodical voice as he read from his latest book and spoke eagerly about literature and his life...
Images of and memorials to men are omnipresent on the Harvard Campus; take a look around in Annenberg and discover three hundred years worth of dead white men staring down at the buffet line. As Harvard was an all-boys club until 1872, founded by Puritan white men, it is not surprising that the majority of visual representation honors the accomplishments of white males...
...their navy blazers and Dockers khakis and dutifully marched off to their respective final club events. Fashion faux pas were abundant: patterned ties with striped shirts, brown socks with black pants, suit jackets moonlighting as “blazers.” It’s the stodgy, Puritan look first pioneered by the likes of William Penn and now available exclusively at the Andover Shop on Holyoke...
...divine Providence." Most of the founders subscribed to the concept of Providence, but they interpreted it in different ways. Jefferson believed in a rather nebulous sense of "general Providence," the principle that the Creator has a benevolent interest in mankind. Others, most notably those who followed in the Puritan footsteps of Cotton Mather, had faith in a more specific doctrine, sometimes called "special Providence," which held that God has a direct involvement in human lives and intervenes based on personal prayer...