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...brighter brights, whiter whites, and have a nice day, O.K.? No other people in history have placed a greater premium on sheer, sunny perkiness than mid-20th century Americans. In the objects they buy and make, that post-Puritan inclination has been expressed by splurges of color. From the jazz age onward, pop culture has gone polychrome in a big way: color, brilliant and various, has been almost obligatory in all things, from clothing to kitchen appliances to automobiles to furniture. What was not cotton-candy pink was smile-button yellow; if not sunset orange, then avocado green. Black, however...
...lessons are not all explicitly political. One crucial notion that Harvard students and our president might absorb from time abroad starts in a place called the campus pub—found in most universities outside the Puritan New England belt. It’s not the drinking symbolized by the pub that matters (though a pre-lecture Guinness is delightful). It’s about having one place, one central place, for every single student, whether they’re fomenting revolution or playing a trivia game. My brother met a lass or 10 at his student union, a friend...
...Washington's birthday in 1946, after brooding alone at the Moscow embassy, Kennan summoned aides and began dictating a 5,540-word cable, divided into five sections like a Puritan sermon, that called the containment of the Soviet Union's expansionist instincts "undoubtedly the greatest task our diplomacy has ever faced." What became known as "the Long Telegram" shook up the foreign policy establishment, as did a subsequent essay he wrote for Foreign Affairs magazine. His doctrine galvanized an array of initiatives to compete with the Soviets, among them the Marshall Plan, NATO, the World Bank and Radio Free Europe...
...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...
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...