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...Hardwick's eyes. She complies unconsciously in her own downfall. Hester Prynne, too, is merely a symbolic figure, and she persists marble-like, from the moment she leaves prison--"the place where radicals are made"--by becoming the epitome of the omnipotent New England matriarch, a self-reliant Puritan. Like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, she emerges the stronger in the contest of seduction and betrayal. Tess, "nature's noble woman," shows an earthy complicity in her own seduction; as an unlikely sort of peasant-aristocrat, she floats between opposite poles of believable human characterization...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: Against the Feminist Telescope | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

...SERVING OTHERS. "I was brought up in a strong puritan tradition, which valued hard work and self-reliance, combined with the Calvinist approach to life, that you should put back into it more than you take out. If you have a good education and don't have to worry about money all the time, you have a special obligation to serve others . . . Though I'm no churchgoer now, I still consider myself a religious man. I particularly like Paul Tillich's definition of religion as a state of being grasped with an infinite concern. Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Religion of John Knowles | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

...Puritan Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shopper's Guide to Policies | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

...they like it once they take the plunge. Their approaches range from the outrageous (a Latin dictator besieged in his palace by a howling mob demanding that he take a sip) to the smirking (a lothario urging an innocent girl to "come on" try it, while she purrs the puritan objection: "My parents." Not until the end of the commercial is it made entirely clear that they are talking about Dr Pepper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Likable Lilliputian | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...glued at all its joints and present in all its contradictions. He is a folkish artist (the varnished pine boards he uses, and the rigor of their joinery, are virtually illustrations of the American grain). From his constructions emanates a wild, laconic humor that is the obverse of puritan sensibility. But the environment that Westermann's images suggest has also to do with rootlessness: carnival sideshows-he was at one time a professional acrobat-and the miniature theater of penny arcades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Midwestern Eccentrics | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

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