Word: puritan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stilwell was the theater commander; he was a puritan. Stilwell knew that the Japanese had whorehouses for their troops, the Prussians had whorehouses for their troops; the French had whorehouses for their troops. But not the U.S. Army, goddamn it; the U.S. Army would not fly whores across the Hump in Air Corps planes; it established no brothels for its men. Chennault wanted only to keep his planes flying and would do anything necessary to keep them in the air, to deliver his message with bombs. Stilwell had the morality of Oliver Cromwell-he was pure, absolutely pure, of graft...
...been a painful process to think about leaving Harvard," he said. "When I informed President Bok this morning that I was leaving, I said, 'I came to Harvard a Puritan and I leave Harvard a Puritan. And Puritans do their duty.' If I thought that I had a job only I could do I would stay, but Harvard's now in a good position to move on," he said...
...hallowed halls of academe. But most slyly tuck away the accouterments of the experienced sunbather--sunglasses, cocoa butter, iodine, baby oil or Sea 'n Ski (depending on skin type), towels, pillows, harmonicas, frisbees, blankets, congo drums (?!). All of this is hidden in bags and purses under layers of the Puritan ethic in the shape of school work. Take, for example, a young woman who dutifully begins reading Samuelson or Campbell or Marx or whoever--but reaching the end of the page she realizes that the words have slid over her eyes like soft-boiled eggs on a white plastic plate...
Despite the vigilant but not unsympathetic eye of Miss Mona (Carlin Glynn), whom no one would presume to call a madam, the girls feel that this house is cozier than home. But a puritan nemesis stalks them: a local TV Savonarola nicknamed "Watchdog" (Clint Allmon) who is bent on inflaming the Bible thumpers and incriminating the pols till they close down the Chicken Ranch...
Some observers believe that the smoking war cannot be understood without a bit of psychological insight. One is Manhattan Psychiatrist Samuel V. Dunkell, who sees the whole thing as struggle between macho and puritan impulses. Reformed smokers, he says, tend to be the most intractable opponents of the weed. "I've noticed when people stop smoking," he says, "that it's part of a calculated campaign of reform of the personality. They do it like a reformation in religious terms, and they feel that they have to convert others." A Tenafly, N.J., psychologist agrees...