Word: prudishness
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...last election proves it; McCarthyism proves it; the constant battering of liberals proves it; the general distrust of intellectuals proves it; and the favorable reception to your article proves it. And what is this neo-Puritanism? It is an authoritarian morality that is completely intolerant of opposition; a prudishness in support of that morality; a passive and negative philosophy of life, purporting to leave all to a God that is no less prudish (the doctrine of original sin), no less authoritarian (a jealous God unmindful that he created men with free wills) . . . The remedy for "growing intellectual confusion" is neither...
...vulgar snafu derivatives may have been American in origin . . . but acceptance and widespread dissemination of their useful addition to Anglo-Saxon idiom was peculiarly British and essentially Eighth Armyish. Your correct if prudish definition of snafu as "situation normal, all fouled up" is a reminder that there were exclusively British ascending and descending degrees of snafu. There was the "self-adjusting snafu" and the "non-self-adjusting snafu." And there was the climactic "cummfu," which, roughly translated, meant "complete utter monumental military foul...
...Collins, president of the Smith Student Council, said, "Neither your awareness of world problems nor your generosity surprised me," but expressed doubts that prudish students would accept "such a Communistic health plan on a coeducational basis...
Then she left in disgust to play in "Goodby My Fancy." She has been playing the same part ever since and is playing it in Boston now. Boston audiences she finds prudish...
...Prudish parents have long been a favorite target of the psychiatrists. Puritanical homes are often blamed for giving children a neurotic attitude toward sex. But one psychiatrist thinks that modern parents can carry their modernism too far. Dr. Flanders Dunbar, 46, mother of a seven-year-old daughter and author of the 1947 bestseller Mind and Body (TIME, Oct. 6, 1947), sounds the warning in her new book, out this week, Your Child's Mind and Body (Random House...