Word: puritanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this crisis of an old order affected the product enormously. Puritan scruples lost out to Puritan money, with lots of nipples and buttocks and, by 1970, pubic hair incorporated into vile and violent attempts to recapture brutalized audiences...
...Washington, where there is a sizable black middle class, color did, and to an extent continues to function as a criterion for acceptance into the upper realms of what E. Franklin Frazier, the black sociologist, termed "the society without substance." Cast after the mold of the white power and Puritan classes, the mores and attitudes of the middle class of the black South are "the direct result of national white attitudes toward black people. Because those attitudes were (and continue to be) so pronouncedly racist, it was natural that within the oppressed community there would be reflected caste systems that...
...another country, responsible to a different constituency, Martin King perhaps would have been less vulnerable to Hoover's ploy, but he was in puritan America, and was responsible to the puritans-at first, the black, but now, the white. Their press had made him. Their financial support had underwritten his activities. Their power protected him from acts of Gothic violence like those that had cancelled the lives of Emmet Till, Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner, and the four girls in the bombed church at Birmingham. Made myopic by his ego and his mendacious assumptions about the nature of America, King...
...Jobs were plentiful, wages and aspirations ran high and local businessmen thrived. A sense of well-being enveloped the skilled aerospace workers, especially the scientists and engineers who saw themselves at the head of the country's drive toward technological preeminence. They were the crew-cut exemplars of the puritan ethic, doing useful work for a good, glamorous cause...
...their demands on the nation. The public is willing to admit that national priorities must be set and that some desirable goals will require time to attain. The downturn has re-emphasized the virtues of hard work and self-reliance and has brought about a modest revival of the puritan ethic. None of this means that recessions are desirable. The goal of rising prosperity is not only a fundamental part of the American credo; it is absolutely essential to the solution of nearly all America's problems. But the recession has at least restored a certain sense of realism...