Word: puritanically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Newburyport. just after the Revolutionary War, was fast slipping its Puritan chains. The rich, the decent and the God fearing still ran things, but there was plenty of heavy drinking, and sons of the well-to-do liked to prove their nonchalance by slipping a hundred-dollar bill into a sandwich and eating it. Poor Timothy Dexter wanted desperately to break into the upper crust, but he hadn't a prayer. All he had was money, made by buying up Continental dollars for pennies when most people thought they would become worthless. Overnight a man of affairs instead...
...Vineyard since 1920. and knows both New England and newspapering well enough to talk of them with fondness and disgust. He writes of a great American theme that Marquand treated more broadly in The Late George Apley and Santayana with more subtlety and depth in The Last Puritan. But Hough gives it the unique flavor of printer's ink and an old editor's green-eyeshaded wisdom. His novel, written in good journeyman's prose, is an effective polemic and an unsentimental elegy...
...once complained: "Oh, if only Taft knew the joys of leadership!" Woodrow Wilson was dogmatic, inscrutably secretive and of limited vitality. His mind was second rate and his style of writing "synthetic Burke."¶ Calvin Coolidge was "arid," a kind of puritan, the sort of man who would make a speech "about George Washington as a businessman...
...year-old daughter, Koch bitterly viewed his dismissal as a breach of academic free dom. "I am a biologist," said he, "and I think I know something about sex. More enlightenment about sex and morals would lead to healthier lives for our citizens. This is the most puritan country in the Western world...
...sentimental love nov el is a sizable calamity in Fiedler's eyes. In Continental terms, the aristocratic Lovelace's siege of Clarissa's stoutly preserved virginity was a class struggle of courtly manners v. the rising middle class. Transferred to the democratic U.S., it became a puritan's version of the war between the sexes. Woman stood for Virtue, Man for Vice. Having struck down the paternal authority of prince and prelate, the immigrant-rebel found that the voice of conscience, convention and society sounded strangely feminine. The divine right of kings had been swapped...