Word: puritans
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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...
...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...
...self-evident." Our rights derive from nature and are secured "by the consent of the governed," Franklin felt, not by the dictates or dogmas of any particular religion. Later in that same sentence, however, we see what was likely the influence of Adams, a more doctrinaire product of Puritan Massachusetts. In his rough draft, Jefferson had written, after noting that all men are created equal, "that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable." By the time the committee and then Congress finished, the phrase had been changed to "that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...
...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...
...acronym refers to Harvard’s most staunchly Puritan president, Increase Mather—who presided over Harvard from 1685 to 1701—after whom Mather House is named. The letter might have been used as an important clue regarding the true origins of the Spring 2004 Interhouse wars...