Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coming Out of Homosexuality" event at the Law School, Burt said the University has strayed from its Puritan roots by endorsing gay-rights initiatives such as the same-sex commitment ceremonies that now are permitted in Memorial Church...
...James' book is by far the best of the lot. Her earlier hymns to "simplicity" trademarked a special brand of neo-Puritan party poopery--don't shop for fun, move into a smaller house, throw out all credit cards but one--that nevertheless appealed to people whose lives seemed to move from one hassle to another. And since parenthood is the greatest hassle of all (as well as--obligatory disclaimer--delightful, magical, etc.), the method holds. Some of her tips are obvious: keep a master calendar showing your kids' appointments, stock your car with snacks and paper towels. Others...
...change was so profound it spooked me. I'd done some reading by then on neurotransmitters, and I wasn't entirely comfortable with the notion that human laughter is, at bottom, a chemical phenomenon. After hearing from several friends how much more relaxed I looked, some whip-wielding inner Puritan took over and convinced me that I should throw away my pills...
Harvard College was founded by Puritans to educate young men for the ministry, and for much of its 361-year existence, religion-in the Puritan tradition-was an integral part of the Harvard education...
...toured what was left of old Nauvoo and learned that Smith had run his growing church from an office above his family's general store. I liked this detail. It brought the man alive for me. Unlike Brigham Young, the stern puritan who succeeded him, Smith was an improviser, a boyish mystic, brimming with charismatic, homegrown visions. In the fields beyond his store, he liked to dress up as a general and drill his personal army, the Nauvoo Legion. In 1844, the year he was murdered, he announced a quixotic candidacy for the U.S. presidency...