Word: puritanism
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...life is Albert, a prickly foreigner, a controversial figure to press and public, but the lord of Victoria's heart. It was Albert, not Victoria, who was so all-fired prim and proper that the term Victorian was saddled on her era as a synonym for Puritan rigidity...
...invited included a nucleus of people already in some sort of group therapy. The ten men and ten women who signed up for Bindrim's experiment included singletons as well as married and about-to-be-married couples. Among their problems, Bindrim believes, were sexual difficulties resulting from puritan teachings that nudity is shameful...
...Volunteers express their beliefs in domestic media about contemporary issues? Yes, witness Vietnam, Will the Peace Corps become a homogeneous group? Only if the heterogeneous abdicate in favor of the puritan vacuum of abstention...
...seem about to go under in private gloom? Have a word with Willy, John. But the role of father-confessor plus Mr. Fixit is really a trial to him. He is having troubles of his own as he is trying to dodge an old mistress to devote his repressed, puritan self to the torturing game he plays with Kate. Author Murdoch knows her lovers through and through, and can prove with almost careless skill that they love for the wrong reasons or not at all. Even depressed Willy can tumble a friend's mistress in the friend...
...three articles on radicalism. Allan Y. Graubard, a tutor in Social Studies, offers a 22-page de-bunking of Marcuse's One Dimensional Man; Franz Bloom '68 submits a review of Moore's Social Origins of Totalitarianism and Democracy, and Michael Walzer, Associate Professor of Government, writes on the Puritan interpretation of the Exodus. Several excellent essays on religious radicalism, three brief book reviews, and a few pages of generally laborious poetry complete the issue...