Word: puritanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem of jobs for the unskilled rightly worries us, but there must be a better way to handle the question than to advocate unlimited waste. If this be puritanism, I am proud to be a puritan...
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...publicized sexual laxity, which in turn produces a high rate of divorce, abortion and venereal disease, cannot be called anything so simple as immorality, he argues: the Scandinavians are merely honest when it comes to sex. "To the Nordic mind, Americans and Englishmen are sexual hypocrites: their pretenses are puritan and Victorian, while their performance is entirely the opposite...
...waste still held by most of the world grows out of scarcity, a situation in which materials are short and labor is the cheapest thing around-a situation that in many cases socialism has helped to perpetuate. In the U.S., the notion of waste also grows from the Puritan belief that negligent use of material things is sinful. "Waste not, want not," saith the preacher, and the phrase still echoes in the minds of older Americans not too far removed from the time when wax drippings were conserved to recast into new candles, or when boys made pocket money...
...Burp," says the Thanksgiving Day greeting card which, with more truth than tradition in it shows Pilgrims and Indians finishing off their first feast together. "Make this a real Puritan Thanksgiving," says another. "Don't eat your turkey without dressing." With such cards for holidays and for just about any other occasion as well, Cleveland's American Greetings Corp. is the fastest-growing company in the U.S.'s $800 million-a-year greeting-card industry. The trade's five biggest companies-Hallmark, American Greetings, Gibson, Norcross and Rust Craft-have a steady annual increase in sales...