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...combined gross national products of Ireland, Israel, Norway and Belgium. The debt of the average American family now stands at an awesome 60% of its after-tax income for one year. In a generation, most of the facts and beliefs about debt have profoundly changed. Virtually dead is the Puritan ethic that condemned spending beyond one's immediate earnings and followed Emerson's maxim...
...country, after her master's elder son (Daniel Massey) has blithely ruined her, she marries his foolish brother and is promptly widowed. En route to London, she outwits a dashing highwayman (Richard Johnson) and meets her husband-to-be, George Sanders, who steals the show as a passionate Puritan debilitated by the labors of love. The comedy reaches a peak of unbuttoned ribaldry in a shipboard rendezvous between Moll and her beloved highwayman, interrupted abed by the bandit's aide-de-camp (Leo McKern), who keeps tumbling upon them via doors and portholes and through the woodwork...
...intellectual has probably never fared quite so badly as he sometimes thinks. From the Puritan Fathers through the flowering of New England, intellectuals of the "clerisy" made great contributions and earned respect, including Franklin, Jefferson, William James. At times, the U.S. was governed by Presidents of intellectual stature, including Taft and Wilson. But there was also the old pragmatic suspicion of the intellectual. America's egalitarian faith that every man is as good as his neighbor, and no better, led to distrust of the intellectual who, by claiming special knowledge, also seemed to claim special distinction...
...best, Morison has the power to lift his country's past from textbook constriction and invest it with his own insight and understanding. He is notably effective in writing about the Puritan settlers, whom he interestingly compares with 19th century Roman Catholic Americans, about the vigorous life of the colonial seaports, about the true spirit of the American Revolution "a civil war," he calls it, reluctantly entered upon by men who "were thinking of preserving and securing the freedom they already enjoyed." Yet he is oddly disappointing on the Civil War, and some of his afterthoughts seem to trespass...
Unnecessary or unseemly, or just unpleasant, what young and old may now read or see is part of the anti-Puritan revolution in American morals...