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Word: puritanic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they like it once they take the plunge. Their approaches range from the outrageous (a Latin dictator besieged in his palace by a howling mob demanding that he take a sip) to the smirking (a lothario urging an innocent girl to "come on" try it, while she purrs the puritan objection: "My parents." Not until the end of the commercial is it made entirely clear that they are talking about Dr Pepper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Likable Lilliputian | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...glued at all its joints and present in all its contradictions. He is a folkish artist (the varnished pine boards he uses, and the rigor of their joinery, are virtually illustrations of the American grain). From his constructions emanates a wild, laconic humor that is the obverse of puritan sensibility. But the environment that Westermann's images suggest has also to do with rootlessness: carnival sideshows-he was at one time a professional acrobat-and the miniature theater of penny arcades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Midwestern Eccentrics | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

Replies the fastidious puritan: "It degrades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Faces of Eve | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...attitudes on nudity show, Dyan retains a sense of the Puritan ethic. In these days of four-letter words, for example, her efforts to avoid using foul language seem almost selfconscious. She rarely talks about sex, and when she does, she shoots a wicked glance, as if to say, "There, I've said it," like a Girl Scout who has strayed from the campfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Skin Touch | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...with stability - peace at any price. The great lords on whom his power principally depended did not understand or trust his policies, and they turned against him at Bosworth Field. He was a man both behind and ahead of his time: a remnant of the Middle Ages; an early Puritan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reconstituting Richard | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

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