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Keeping the oath was not easy. As King, Saud squandered fortunes on his pleasures, chief of which were a huge harem. Next to women, Saud liked air-conditioned Cadillacs best, and next to Cadillacs, intrigue. In contrast, Feisal was almost a puritan: though thrice married, he lives with only one wife at a time and, for the past 20 years, his consort has been Turkish-educated Princess Iffat. He speaks fluent French and English as well as Arabic, and has tried to use his country's oil millions for the benefit of the people...
Perhaps he really does not, for even hand holding is condemned as "bourgeois." Part of the reason for the puritan policy is to discourage early marriages and thus population growth (an estimated 12 million a year). Contraceptives, are displayed everywhere, and free literature on the subject is available for study under the glass tops of teahouse tables...
...UNION DEAD, by Robert Lowell. Less obscure than his earliest works and less embarrassingly confessional than his recent Life Studies, these poems pursue Lowell's preoccupation with creativity, madness, marriage and his Puritan heritage in tough, masculine verse...
...UNION DEAD, by Robert Lowell. Less obscure than his earliest works and less embarrassingly confessional than his recent Life Studies, these poems pursue Lowell's preoccupation with creativity, madness, marriage and his Puritan heritage in tough, masculine verse...
...Senator Goldwater is a direct lineal descendant of the great Puritan preacher Roger Williams, who founded the colony of Rhode Island. There are remarkable parallels in the careers of the two men. though three centuries separate them. Individual freedom is the primary concern of both their lives. Williams wrote The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience (1644), and Goldwater wrote The Conscience of a Conservative (1960). Williams led the fight against religious regimentation in his day, just as Goldwater leads the struggle against government regimentation in our times. Both were special friends to the American Indians...