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Plainness ran deeper than taste. It sometimes grew out of religious conviction--formal severity was built into the Puritan creed, for instance. But it also sprang from the social necessities of American life: the need to make and mend things for oneself, to fit and adapt to local materials. And it acquired a political dimension as metaphor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAKING IT STRAIGHT | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...honestly if we must." From this culture of greed arose the primal names of American business: Rockefeller (oil), Carnegie and Frick (steel), Vanderbilt (railroads), the Goulds, Astors, Fisks and, towering over them all, the magister ludi of saber-toothed capitalism, J. Pierpont Morgan. After 1870, America lost all its Puritan inhibitions about the gratuitous display of surplus wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEAUTY OF BIG | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...Ship" Puritan meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORY'S MIXED FABRIC | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...fact, the best Civil War painting doesn't show a war and has only one figure in it. It is The Veteran in a New Field, 1865, by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). In an earlier America, there wasn't even much past to remember; there are no Puritan monuments, for instance, except for individual gravestones. Memory had to be imported. This was very much the point of the style that became the official architectural language of the Revolution: neoclassicism, based on ancient Roman models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO SHAPE A PAST | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...religious fervor of Harvard's Puritan leaders led them to establish higher institutions of learning dedicated to God in the new colonies, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes said last night in Boylston Hall...

Author: By Y. SUSAN Choi, | Title: Gomes Discusses Spiritual Intent of Original Indian College | 4/23/1997 | See Source »

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