Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broadcast journalism has a secular saint, a Puritan forebear, a drafter of the Constitution, he is beyond challenge Edward R. Murrow, a man whose prestige endures more than a quarter of a century after he ceased to be a major force in reporting and analyzing the news. Murrow made his reputation covering war and challenging demagoguery. He burnished it by losing battles to commercialism and belatedly denouncing his betrayers. He died young: he was 57 when he succumbed to the lung cancer brought on by a four-pack-a-day cigarette habit, a vice he could not kick even while...
Harvard Orator Rosen plans to speak on thelegacy of the Puritans. "The speech talks aboutthe Puritan legacy and how the students of the1980s are trying to cope with the burden of the1960s," said Rosen, who will deliver a modifiedversion of the speech at the 350th celebrationthis fall...
...parade or refused to march. It is the cradle not only of liberty but of imagination: John Harvard conceived of a college; Emerson and Thoreau inspired the intellectual flowering of New England; William Lloyd Garrison sparked the abolitionist movement that split a country. The state's hybrid heritage--Puritan and Pilgrim, fisherman and farmer, Yankee and immigrant--combined to form something greater than the sum of its individual strains...
...STATISTICAL approach, this perspective of Harvard history works quite well. That the Harvard Corporation recovered from the financial catastrophe of President Kirkland's administration (1810--1828) is a credit to the school's frugal Puritan origins. However, this same New England ethnocentrism accounts for the disturbing story of minority enrollment at the College...
Most men don't object to equality in relationship, in the workplace, or in the home. I think we do have some problems, however, with being told how and what we can think about women. Perhaps the traditional masculine ideals of sex are pernicious. Why should the neo-puritan conceptions of the feminist fascists be any better...