Word: puritanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huge Biblical canvases hopelessly designed to shake the world, e.g., his unfinished Belshazzar's Feast. Trapped in the cheerful, chilly Boston of the transcendentalists, the wellsprings of his art running dry, he looked back longingly to the Mediterranean world that he had always been too much of a Puritan to grasp...
...strata. A female satirist has a difficult row to hoe, because if you are too nasty, people think you are a five-letter word. Actually, I'm terribly torn as to where I fit in. There is an affirmative side to all my novels; I guess it's my Puritan tradition which makes my novels point a moral. Some people think I should do straight satire and are disappointed that the novels have this other aspect...