Word: puritanically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Puritan roots are deep," Hef told TIME. "We're fascinated by sex and afraid of it." Hefner didn't seem skittish; he indulged in it at every chance he got. Life at the mansion was lavish and lascivious-a Puritan's ninth circle of hell. Strolling grounds populated with imported squirrel monkeys, flamingos and llamas, dotted with waterfalls and full of celebrities, Peter O'Toole said: "This is the way God would have done it if he had the money." Adds a guest: "It was like going to some infant's paradise, where you could eat all the candy...
...afternoon last year. My stomach turned. Before my eyes was grand old Harvard on parade, splendidly arrayed in academic robes and bonnets, in all of its pomp and pageantry, installing its new president according to the customary prescription. Yet with a few derisive words about Harvard’s Puritan heritage from Drew Gilpin Faust and her counterpart at the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann ’71, that visible visible continuity—between the Harvard of the present and the past—was sundered...
...strip down too often. A 2007 survey by Harvard University Health Services found that just over half of Harvard students had engaged in sexual intercourse at least once. This astronomically high number should alarm us—have we completely forgotten our fair college’s Puritan roots? Aside from the obvious ethical and moral questions premarital sex raises, between-the-sheets workouts tonight are a surefire way to guarantee we’re tired tomorrow. Indeed, some students are even engaging in sex on weeknights. Enter any House laundry room and you may find that the complementary condom...
Protestant history has included periods of enthusiastic talk about sex, as well as chilly silence. A famous 1623 Puritan sermon made the case for "mutual [conjugal] dalliances for pleasure's sake," presumably as a distinction from Roman Catholicism's procreation-only rule. In the 1970s, several conservative Christian leaders responded to the popularity of Alex Comfort's classic how-to The Joy of Sex by reminding their flocks that whoopee for whoopee's sake was not doctrinally prohibited; Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and Left Behind co-author Tim LaHaye each put out manuals for married couples...
...fixed ideological position, relying instead on intuition. Critics put it about that he lacked intellectual inquisitiveness; in fact, he made a constant effort to refresh his thinking and was no ignoramus. He particularly liked Chekhov's short stories. When not bingeing on vodka, he was a bit of a puritan in social relations. He abhorred unpunctuality: his favorite gift to anyone was a wristwatch. Aides who made lewd comments quickly lost their posts...