Word: puritanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harmonies and rhythms of their art, having created a smooth and masterful whole from diverse and individual bits and pieces, having molded a swashbuckling and exciting style of diamond exhibition, having succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of a John Harvard Doubleday and brought national acclaim to the bleak and Puritan New England athletic frontier, the Harvard baseball team is back...
...trimmed panties at Wimbledon more than two decades ago. Teeny lob-bers everywhere are mirroring the "Chrissie look": gold loop earrings, modishly cut tennis frocks, long hair parted in the middle and tied back with colored yarn, and-look Ma!-a two-handed backhand. The Chris Evert line of Puritan Tennis outfits, frilly, form-fitting tennis togs splashed with pastels, makes the squarish whites of old look like straitjackets. Now, with the figure to complement the filigree, she has erased forever the "little Chrissie" sobriquet. Still, she is unsatisfied: "I wish some writer would get around to calling me sexy...
...Evert, a traditional type from a devoutly Catholic family, pooh-poohs Women's Lib and has criticized King's break from the male-dominated U.S.L.T.A. The cash, however, is nonideological. So far this year, Evert has won $70,050. With endorsement mon ey from Puritan and Wilson Sporting Goods, she figures to earn around $150,000. Most of the offers to lend her name to everything from leg lotion and deodorants to toothpaste and soap pow der have been turned down. Explains Jimmy Evert: "It takes time to do these things. When Chrissie's not playing...
...Scarlet Letter. A tightly packed and emotional version of the Hawthorne novel, dubiously referred to as a classic of American literature. Lillian "the It Girl" Gish shines as the Puritan wife who bears the local pastor's child, for she was one of the artists of the silent film who practiced the ultimate in method acting: no words at all. Channel...
...overpowering utility father figure. Returning for a stay with his family, he reignites his wife's banked passions and her family's recriminations. Grandfather dies, Egan's sister runs off with the first boy to find the but tons on her jodhpurs, and Grandmother spouts puritan pieties about everyone's troubles with their "bottom parts...