Word: puritanize
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...terms of mainstream student values then, Wellesley today is every bit as much Mona Lisa Smile-puritan as it is secular, Sapphic fantasyland. And there are, of course, numerous students that fall between these two spheres...
Between the caricatures of the hedonist and Puritan poles lies a vast, silent swath of the student body that is consciously apolitical in regard to gender. In an age of irony and apathy, post-Third Wave feminism (see sidebar), women especially are willing to speak up for or against war, Social Security, or even a nebulous category of “women’s issues,” as long as they can keep a safe distance from the term feminism, which conjures images of angry, man-hating lesbians. Not only are Harvard’s conservatives and liberals...
...have sex. At 88 members, their Facebook group (not to be confused with the group “I’m Saving Myself for Wild, Passionate, Awkward Honeymoon Sex”) is illustrated by a photograph of a blooming white rose, as chaste and pure as our Puritan founders would have expected their brides...
...contrast, while Harvard has been a Boston institution since its Puritan beginnings, the local accent has never caught on here. Instead, Harvard has historically embraced the more decadent, waspish ethos of the Boston Brahmin elite. We live in a land of regattas and finals clubs—far more John Forbes Kerry than Will Hunting. If there is an accent that has defined Harvard over the years, it is one of haughty pretension that characterizes the sermons of Reverend Peter J. Gomes...
...double-D twin attention rockets that helped blast her to stardom. (In life Smith was coy about the specifics of her plastic surgery--its existence confirmed, grimly, by the medical examiner after her death--even if she was not shy about displaying the results.) We have a Puritan suspicion of people who improve on what nature gave them. FX's Nip/Tuck both glamorizes and moralizes about plastic surgery. Last year Hillary Clinton dealt with a smear that she had had work done, just as in 2004 John Kerry was attacked with Botox rumors. (As cosmetic work becomes more common...