Word: puritanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes three generations to make a lady, and then she'll spit," he used to say. In addition to many distinguished ancestors, Boeth can also claim a petticoat thief in New Amsterdam (fined 20 guilders for the deed). And Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate enjoys recalling, among his Puritan precursors, one William ("Whiskey") Cate, who earned his moniker as the watchdog of sobriety in colonial Boston. "During his lifetime, he confiscated many bottles of booze," says Cate. "When old Bill finally died, they found that all those hundreds of bottles were still in the basement-and all empty...
With a storyteller's gift for narrative and vivid detail, Lupo enlivens the somewhat familiar history of poor, brawling Irish immigrants invading the Boston of the 1800s and suffering harassment from the threatened Yankees. He readily accepts Henry Adams' description of the Puritan-descended New Englander, who "in his long struggle with a stingy or hostile universe, had learned also to love the pleasure of hating; his joys were...
...some further legal protection against credit abuses, and they need much more counseling in the techniques and costs of borrowing. But in the end, no one can protect the crediholic from himself. Hedonistic though it is, the Credit Society reserves its greatest rewards for those who practice that most puritan virtue: selfdiscipline...
Flynt remains a puritan about his work. He puts in 18-hour days, personally approves all Hustler and Chic photo layouts and edits many manuscripts himself. "When I see a long word that I don't know, I take it out," he says. Lately Flynt has hired experienced editors to help him, waged a high-minded campaign against smoking and scored a minor coup by signing Norman Mailer to do an interview with John Ehrlichman-for $12,500. Untaken offers include $1 million each to Gloria Steinem, Raquel Welch, Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Barbara Walters, among others, to pose...
Sally brings with her one possession, one consolation, one lifeline to the Brave New World she rather wishes she had been born into-her television set. James is a puritan: a beekeeper, a man who splits elm at 20° below zero, a myth maker whose hero is Ethan Allen, not the Fonz. James hates Snoopy, Coca-Cola, California, astronauts (they are there to "undo him") and, above all, television. One night James takes out his 12-gauge shotgun and blasts away at Sally's picture tube as if it were the devil's eye; when she objects...