Word: mather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with this situation, it is a comfort to live in Massachusetts. For the Commonwealth, the home of the Blue Laws and Cotton Mather, of no baseball on Sunday mornings and no sherry under twenty-one, is already resisting. In a sharp letter to the liquor barons, the Massachusetts Beverage Control deplored the use of the "pictures and/or name of St. Nicholas--also called Santa Claus" in its advertising. Here, at least, the spirit that warmed Salem is not yet extinguished...
When the structure on DeWolfe St. is finished next fall, only 227 students will be allowed to enter the House. At that time, construction of the Leverett House towers will still be in progress, and Mather Hall will not be available...
Funds for the project will come from the endowments of the Belknap Press, and will be used to print about five or six books a year. Among the works being considered for the first printing are Cotton Mather's Magnalia, Howard Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware, and William Stith's History of Virginia...
...Manhattan's Bijou Theater, his skinny torso masked by a loose red sweater, his hands feverishly clutching a rolled-up newspaper. Then Monologuist Mort Sahl, 30, star of The Next President, tigerishly launches into his act. He runs on and on and on, a Beat-Generation Cotton Mather who gives half the names in the news a beating, cracking his whip up Pennsylvania Avenue one minute, down Madison Avenue the next. Ostentatiously irreverent, he is at times witty, oftener merely outspoken...
Quincy House itself will consist of two parts: Mather Hall, now a part of Leverett House; and the new building. Until a new addition to Leverett is completed in the fall of 1960, Mather students will continue their association with Leverett...