Word: puritanically
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...Puritan, which finds the economy of mass affluence "irredeemably unregenerate, lurching wastefully and precariously along, propped up only by armaments, tail-fins and payola...
...author's career at Radcliffe was indeed a trying period--she still seems tense over it. Unfortunately, she assumes that her life here was typical, and that is doubtful indeed. Most 'Cliffies are not morally bullied by dead Puritan ghosts. Few girls I know make "turgid references" to the "totality of experience," nor do many sing themselves "to near collapse" over Bach. Radcliffe is not a four-year trauma for everybody, nor, as Miss Sayres claims, do "even the gentlest girls have turbulent private lives...
...laws forbade them to purchase. Storekeepers in Hartford had a field day (sales up 34%), while their Massachusetts counterparts sulked at home and watched the parade which (for the nonce) replaced the extravaganza of Filene's Bargain Basement. Presumably these scenes were repeated last Saturday, when once again the Puritan ethic got the better of the spirit of capitalism in Massachusetts...
...months after his junta took over South Korea in an almost bloodless coup, Lieut. General Park Chung Hee, a puritan in olive drab, is making an unprecedented effort to clean out his country's age-old corruption and laxness...
Whether anybody is really harmed by Girodias' 4-franc dreadfuls is the sort of question that befogs all discussions of pornography. Between the extremes of the puritan, who thinks all nonclinical mention of sex is evil, and the libertine, who is a puritan turned inside out, is the broad-minded man, who is not very helpful either. His definition of pornography is clear, but only to him: "Anything that shocks me too much." Olympia's output shocks almost everyone, at least momentarily. But in the view of New England-born Author Akbar, "The books have so much filth...