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...have been a nonentity and herself, emotionally stunted. She brought her children up by a Victorian Dr. Spock that would have been enough to curdle any child's blood, let alone the extraordinarily sensitive, intelligent children that were hers. Edward Dickinson, Emily's father, was a severe and joyless Puritan, more interested in politics than his family, a conflict which he could never resolve...

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: A Clean Dissection | 10/26/1971 | See Source »

post-bourgeois, post-capitalist, post-Christian, post-civilized, post-economic, posthistoric, postindustrial, postliberal, post-literature, post-market, post-materialist, postmodern, post-organization, post-protestant, post-puritan, post-scarcity, post-traditional, post-tribal and post-welfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Parcel of Posts | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

John Harvard has traditionally paced the Crimson football sideline in a 1636 Puritan costume, but the Harvard cheerleaders may soon trade in their blunderbust and Crimson for meatballs and spaghetti sauce...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Italians Back Crimson: 'Win One for Columbus' | 9/29/1971 | See Source »

...this crisis of an old order affected the product enormously. Puritan scruples lost out to Puritan money, with lots of nipples and buttocks and, by 1970, pubic hair incorporated into vile and violent attempts to recapture brutalized audiences...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Politics and Films for Beginners | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

...another country, responsible to a different constituency, Martin King perhaps would have been less vulnerable to Hoover's ploy, but he was in puritan America, and was responsible to the puritans-at first, the black, but now, the white. Their press had made him. Their financial support had underwritten his activities. Their power protected him from acts of Gothic violence like those that had cancelled the lives of Emmet Till, Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner, and the four girls in the bombed church at Birmingham. Made myopic by his ego and his mendacious assumptions about the nature of America, King...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Evacuations: The King God Didn't Save | 5/18/1971 | See Source »

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