Word: puritanize
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...must restructure their private companies and redesign their governmental bodies in order to free themselves from the bureaucratic shackles that now stifle their growth. They must also broaden the types of community living in the nation to include choices on the political right and left-meaning new concepts like puritan towns, local governments run on contract by private businesses, and towns that emphasize full individual participation...
Certainly a part of this reaction is that Puritan guilt yanking at the American heart strings: art is supposed to be work, back-breaking, meticulous, a blood and sweat document of the starving artist. Lichtenstein seems like the smart-aleck who is getting away with cheating...
...name, the Times responded last week by identifying him in a cartoon lampooning his decision. It was hardly necessary, for everyone knows that Edward Michael Davis, 58, is the city's chief of police. Tilting with the Times-and anyone else who runs up against his puritan ethics-is standard operating procedure for Davis. To him advocates of gun control are "quacks"; legislators who support less than draconian marijuana laws are "irresponsible, no-good sons of bitches...
...Puritan Leader John Winthrop's ship neared the Massachusetts coast, "there came a smell offshore like the smell of a garden." The garden-like fragrance of herbs still hangs on the New England air, and with it the sweet smell of commercial success. Indeed, Americans' fascination with herbs-plants valued for specific medicinal, culinary or aromatic uses-has grown so fast in recent years that the demand for herb plants and seeds has wafted to every corner of the country. Dried and fresh herbs, used for millenniums in teas, elixirs, salves and perfumes to spice food and please...
...balance tilts here--your ball goes where it is intended to. Furthermore, the mini-civilization which this 18-hole wonder slithers through is detailed and vast, set--appropriately in this Bicentennial year--in the colonial style of our forefathers. The Liberty Bell, Paul Revere's Ride, a Puritan Village--all these chapters of our history are arranged perfectly in order that we may knock golf balls through them. The price is steep--$2.50--but a miniature golf course this made-to-order is worth much more...