Word: puritanism
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There are too many villains in the drama to single out one for the most severe denunciation. The humorless, self-aggrandizing athletes of the Undergraduate Athletic Council can only be condemned for their refusal to accept their Radcliffe compatriots. The University Administration, a stiff-necked, Puritan lot, cannot be chastized enough for the paternal prohibitions it placed upon the Harvard Band. The HAA, in ordering local constables to arrest any girl appearing on the field, has forgotten that Harvard is not merely a moneymaking institution...
During Curley's successful campaign for Governor in 1934, the Lampoon published a cartoon satire entitled "Curley Addressing His Puritan Ancestors." Curley demanded a public apology. "The downy-cheeked editors waited in an ante-chamber at City Hall for two hours," he recalled, "while I wrote out an abject apology for them to sign. They signed...
...outside world. Most Yorkshiremen stared stonily at the works, pronounced them "poozling" and just plain "dommed silly." Said one housewife: "Eee-ee. Did you ever? I wouldn't even have that in our Nellie's attic." Armitage was not surprised. Said he: "The social atmosphere is so puritan and esthetically barren that any artist who fights his way to any kind of recognition there is bound to do all right in the rest of the world...
Massachusetts elections have never had the notoriety of those in Long's Louisiana, or the predictability of Vermont's. Traditionally, the Republicans pit a Puritan Beacon Hiller against a Democrat recently arisen from Boston's South End. This year the situation has changed: for one of the two major state posts, the Democrats have nominated a fair-haired boy from the upper classes, and the Republicans have chosen two relatively unknown political hacks in their nearly hopeless campaign effort. All four candidates are united in one respect: they are mediocre...
...Shakespeare. Richard II abdicates, and before his robes are fairly off, Hamlet is making plans. Romeo dies with a kiss on his lips, steps modestly back amid applause, and reads a sonnet. To juxtapose great speeches is to pretend that their greatness is sham, and give weight to the Puritan notion that the theatre is only a dirty trick...