Word: puritanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown, meanwhile, is coasting to what he expects to be an easy victory in November. Still well ahead in the polls, he schedules almost no appearances before noon. Last week he was once again ignoring Flournoy as he attacked more inviting targets. With puritan outrage, he assailed as a modern-day Taj Mahal the new $1.3 million Governor's mansion that is being built at the same time that Reagan vetoed a $500 million housing bond issue. Flournoy supported the housing program, but his moderate views on the issues-not very far removed from Brown...
...Victorians look like Linda Lovelace in drag. The State Fuzz promised to bust the show once the new laws were passed, and because policemen always keep their word, they busted it again and again and again. The shows producers decided to try to comply with the state's puritan tastes and removed the "open and gross lewdness," but no sooner did they do that than Cambridge began to give them heat on fire code violations. So Theater Two, finally getting the message, finally closed up shop. The two plays weren't great, but they were all Cambridge had in avant...
Come on, America! Why this constant introverted breast-beating about a national peccadillo? I suppose that it is your Puritan upbringing...
...respect, we Americans differ little from our 17th century Puritan forebears. We continue to believe in the efficacy of witch hunts of grandiose proportions for excising the evil from among us. They may provide a needed catharsis, may even have a mild deterrent effect; but when will we learn that evil is not a wart on the body politic, but a cancer endemic in the human soul...
...Beach did not think climbing out of second-story windows was a very good idea, yet that sort of thing tended to be the culmination of the kind of parties he attended. Nor did Beach like habitual drunkenness, streaking or public displays of affection. Beach might have been a puritan if his personal morals had been as high as those he required of the general public...