Word: prude
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...itself on telling the truth. The Crimson, should be unembarrassed, even proud of its courage. This is not Oral Roberts University, after all, even if a few of its students might be happier on the board of censors there. Who was that witty, intelligent fellow who said to the prude: "Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" with his sidekick adding:" Yes, by Saint Anne and ginger shall be hot i the' mouth too." Geoffrey Cook...
...stuffy, self-righteous, a bit of a prude...
...Denton is not a predictable, doctrinaire conservative or a prude. He gambles, takes a social drink now and then, and can swear like the sailor he was. He is an intimate of Baptist Preacher Jerry Falwell, and his campaign was backed by Falwell's Moral Majority. A month after the election he complained to Falwell that the group had no blacks or Jews on its board. Said Denton: "I don't see the Moral Majority supporting the commandment 'Love thy neighbor.' " He challenges fellow Southerners who support a vast network of all-white "Christian academies" that...
...wonders whether the schmerz includes repressed sexual feelings. "The chocolate fudge sundaes we put away when we should have had sex!" Trilling says, adding "But I do not think it hurt us to wait, either." Trilling is not a prude. The sexual revolution did not upset her sense of propriety, but was nevertheless cause for concern. Sexual relationships did not relieve the students' loneliness...
...issue," she said. "What is new is our numbers, our strength, our rage, and our refusal to cower at the accusation, prude...