Word: puritanism
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...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...
...France's existentialist termagant. Jean Paul Sartre's first lady of the Left Bank cafés, is at least as candid as she is philosophically stubborn. Her memoirs of girlhood owe most of their charm to the surprising fact that her origins were Catholic, her upbringing puritan. She describes all this with considerable grace, ends with a conversion to Sartre's atheism which seems from her own testimony to be just another straitjacket, but one she can wear with arrogance...
Front-Porch Campaign. McKinley was a Puritan by inheritance. His father, an Ohio pig-iron founder, gave Will's mother the most austere wedding trip imaginable-a drive in the buggy to a nearby spring for a refreshing drink of water (the month was January). The son was as free of vice as he was of intellectual curiosity. Throughout his life, his favorite plays were Rip Van Winkle and The Cricket on the Hearth. Methodist McKinley's only unseemly heritage from the smoke-filled rooms where he started his political career was the habit of smoking an occasional...
...LAST PURITAN, by George Santayana. The complete work in a serialized reading by Bill Cavness...
...LAST PURITAN, by George Santayana. The complete work in a serialized reading by Bill Cavness...