Word: puritanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rubble in Man and Superman, one becomes more and more aware of the self-divided ambiguity of Shaw's nature. Just as he was a celibate husband, he was a plutocratic socialist, a religious atheist, an irrational rationalist, a philosopher clown, a meditative activist and a sexually emancipatory puritan...
...mother of taste. Significantly, he entitled an early "self-portrait" of 1947-48 Homely Protestant, a phrase he picked at random from a page of Joyce. Motherwell was not the only Wasp among the New Yorkers who created abstract expressionism, but he was certainly the most conscious of his puritan background. The son of a California banker, he perceived America as a land of constraint-the abode, so to speak, of the superego. Pictorial sensuousness was something one escaped toward-across the Atlantic, to an imagined Paris, home town of the Cartesian odalisque...
...early 1950s, the stream slackened and reversed its course. New York was the center, Paris the province. It was now the turn of the Americans-Rothko and de Kooning, Johns and Rauschenberg, the Pop artists in the '60s-to alarm and stimulate the French. Thus the puritan Yankee paying his awkward homages to Matisse's sensuality was replaced, in the commedia dell'arte, by the French Pop artist in his new-faded denims gazing raptly on the neon of Times Square...
Most theme parks are a mirror image of the puritan work ethic. The idea here is to play, hustle and use the last cent's worth of the $30 plus it may take a family of four to get in. At most parks (major exceptions: Disneyland and Disney World), there is a flat admission fee that enables parents and offspring to sample and resample every major attraction without charge. Remembering the rapacious playlands of the past, where gambling, boozing and whoring were as rife as popcorn and pizza, most theme parks promote soft drinks and fast foods. They dispense...
...member of Dukakis' own welfare advisory council derides it as "a foolhardy adventure, conceived in haste, doomed to failure and meant to punish the poor." But workfare seems assured of political popularity in a state that still prides itself on its Puritan work ethic...