Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evil eye of the puritan Watch and Ward Society opened as the year began and, represented by Cambridge Mayor Nichols, decided that a local production of Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude" was not suitable for presentation. Censorship further plagued the University when several orders of books for French and other foreign literature courses were forbidden to be shipped to the Phillips Book Store because they were "obscene." Among the restricted works: Rousseau's Confessions, Rabelais's Oeuvres, and Boccaccio's Decameron...
...Taverns" merited particular Puritan attention in 1692. In an attempt at a sober Sabbath, the law maintained that only "travelers, strangers, or lodgers may be entertained in them." Today, however, almost everyone is either a stranger or a traveler...
...head of England's great Puritan, open mouth still drawn down in disapproval of a godless generation, glowered for a new master last week. Dr. Horace Wilkinson of Kettering, Northamptonshire, wondered what to do with a family heirloom left by his late father, Canon Horace Wilkinson, the pike-impaled head of Oliver Cromwell...
Ernst replied that he did not believe in the common standards of decency. He said that even among Roman Catholics there is no common ground, the Irish with a Puritan background and the Latins thinking in entirely different ways. He also claimed that it is abnormal for Catholic nuns and priests to judge obscenity for people who are not celibate as they are, therefore having a different attitude toward...
...fact that these critics act on a theory of art which does not countenance such tomfoolery. Only when art leads to a modification or intensification of sensibility is it distinct from Eliot's "superior amusement," or even more degrading, a virtue. Some people seem still to believe in Puritan fashion that reading the good book is in itself righteous...