Word: puritanically
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...leaving the department in 1961, he ran for the city council in his racially mixed neighborhood; he won and has stayed in the 15-member council ever since. He always seems to be the same man under any conditions, representing, says an admirer, the "black sliver of the white puritan ethic...
...suppose that even pornographic movies must be judged contextually. Unfortunately, their context, if it exists, lies somewhere outside the scope of conventional criticism. What, after all, is good porn? Does it stimulate you? Does it make you (as some puritan souls seem to think) run out of the theatre mad with lust, ready to violate the first female body that comes along? Ironically, if pornographic films had this effect, perhaps one could ascribe some specious artistic quality to them. Good art, as they say, possesses the power to make you ruminate, react, and reach...
...Still another Hoagland worries about the fascist potential in hiring private armed guards to patrol his dangerous neighborhood and muses about political assassination and his own unlikely killer instinct. Hoagland the literary man, the author of three novels that few people bothered to buy, turns a puritan eye on literary politics and celebrity. "The clean handling of fame is what's asked for," he says with his jealousies tightly reined. "Not too much clowning with Eugene McCarthy, a low profile, a civilized private life well enclaved within the mysteries of the craft" is his preference-an ideal as hunted...
...Little Miss Innocent" was a little more appealing, and in a perverse sort of way, it summed up the Crimson fencing season. First of all, the filmmakers had escaped the Puritan confines that had restricted the efforts of the cameramen in "A Hard Man." And to top it off, the flick had a plot. (Well, sort of a plot.) In a nutshell, it goes like this: Mr. Hip, a rich, chic, handsome man in gold Cadillac convertible, picks up two nubile young girls hitchhiking on the road. They ride with him to the end of his driveway and then depart...
Compared with Kovell, Pincus is a puritan. He seems satisfied with joylessly initiating one 14-year-old virgin and watching her take up with heroin. Pincus' passion is for revolution and cultivating flowers of evil from all the standard humanities-department seed catalogues. He is an organizer of the destruction of art in local museums and the burning of Harvard's Widener Library. He kills Mailer, further extending those justifications for hell raising that Mailer himself borrowed from Dostoevsky, Baudelaire...