Word: puritanism
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...Puritan Ethic. To argue its case for combining tax cuts with huge budget deficits, the Administration sent up to the Hill a host of persuasive witnesses, including, besides Gordon, Walter W. Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. But committee members seemed far from persuaded. Even liberal Democrats pronounced themselves disturbed about that dizzying $11.9 billion deficit in the President's budget for fiscal 1964 (beginning next July). Heller, for one, argued that the New Frontier's program would lay open...
Most of the remaining articles sustain the general high level. Theodore Marmor 1G's article on Calhoun notes the conflict between Calhoun's Puritan temperament and Southern Cavalier notions. It suggests that Calhoun, because he stressed innate worth and personal accomplishment over ascribed worth and gentlemanly living, more truly represented the whole South at the time of the Civil War than did the Carlylian rhetoric of some other writers...
...this country? His field (explained Doctor Miller) is neuro-psychiatry, the study of the effects of physical drugs on psychologically disturbed people; and his reasons for wanting to study in the United States (pointed out Satirist Miller) are simple: "the American public has a curious belief--it's a Puritan hangover--that disease is culpable, so you pay exorbitant sums to be cured. And your doctors make a lot of money...
Last March they were on location in Hong Kong, and the resulting affair blazed through Korea's hot summer. Kim quietly divorced her husband, a director, a month ago. But Choi's wife, a Korean actress, brought charges of adultery. Still fired by the puritan zeal that Korea's new rulers made fashionable after their May 1961 coup, the prosecutor sent the pair off to Seoul's grim Sodaemun Prison in handcuffs. The news was a shocking disappointment to their fans. "Their immorality only evokes Hollywood," wrote one angry reader to a Seoul paper. "The helplessly...
...place and out of time, Caesario and Pamela try to solace each other with sex in the tawdry austerity of a Times Square hotel room. It is a hilarious and heartbreaking scene, and belongs triumphantly to Margaret Leighton. She slugs down one whisky after another, and dances like a puritan posing as a pagan. "This is rather exciting, really," she says in an unlevel voice that slides precariously from jolly-good-sport toward hysteria...