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When the pair land in colonial America, they hook up with Benjamin Franklin, finding not a parsimonious Puritan but a turned-on, pre-psychedelic party animal.
The editorship of Tina Brown is usually credited—more usually, faulted— with that journal's frequent use of the word, and though writers did use it frequently under Ms. Brown, in fact fuck appeared there, spelled in full, in 1985, during the editorship of the puritan William Shawn, in a short story by Bobbie Ann Mason: Maybe you have to find out for yourself.
The puritan crusaders of the North and the alienated populists of the South may share common political enemies, but little else.
Among American universities, Harvard University is the oldest (founded in 1636 as a training ground for puritan ministers), and the richest, and has produced numerous Nobel Prize winners.
As the eminent Puritan theologian William Ames wrote in Conscience and the Cases Thereof , "[H]e whose offence is hidden has ...