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...Game of Chance. Leading spokesman on the Ways and Means Committee for that view was ranking Republican John Byrnes of Wisconsin, a tax expert, who argues that "the 'Puritan ethic' is a lot stronger in this country than some people think." Applying the Puritan ethic to the tax bill, Byrnes offered an amendment that would have prevented the second stage of the tax cut from taking effect on schedule in 1965 unless Kennedy met two conditions beforehand: limiting his fiscal 1965 budget to $98 billion-$800 million under the present budget; and keeping the net national debt below...
...House floor, it will be treated under a "closed rule" barring floor amendments and limiting debate to two days. Even so, says Byrnes, "we will give them fits on the floor." Once voting begins, Byrnes can move to recommit the bill to Ways and Means to reconsider his "Puritan ethic" amendment. But the Administration is counting on mustering enough votes to defeat such a motion and send the bill on to the Senate...
...success in the Italian Parliament [Aug. 16]; then maybe he won't have time to design women's fashions. Mr. Pucci seems to think that we American women will abandon the tops of our bathing suits. Hasn't he heard that we are all inhibited by Puritan ethics? Besides, if you wear his pocketless Capri pants, the only place left to carry money, cigarettes, etc. is in a bra or swimming-suit...
...morality then was different. In Restoration England, debauchery was public and unabashed. King Charles II acknowledged 14 bastards, openly went to church with them, even gave them titles (the present Duke of Richmond springs from the Stuart bar sinister). But there was just as much vigor among the Puritan opposition, which lustily preached fire and brimstone. In Ward's Britain, vice tends to be half-hidden by respectability-and only half-condemned. There is a relative lack of moral indignation in many quarters, including Profumo's own constituency (see following story). The Labor Opposition, though it has muttered...
...targets in this play has receded from view a good deal since his day: the Victorian melodrama. But Shaw, as a practicing drama reviewer in the 1890's, was fed up to the gills with this type of play. In Caesar and Cleopatra (as well as the other two "Puritan" plays) he was poking fun at this genre and pulling the pedestal out from under the Romantic hero. The play is, then--if I may run the risk of Polonius' excessive categorization--an example of the didactic parody - melodrama. Brilliant comedy, epigrammatic wit, and hectic melodrama are here in abundance...