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There are some theories, of course. In what might be called the testosterone theory, a congenital error in the wiring of the male brain leads to a confusion between violence and sex. Men get off on hideous mayhem, and women, supposedly, cover their eyes. Then there's the raging puritan theory, which is based on the statistical fact that those who get slashed or eaten on the screen are usually guilty of a little fooling around themselves. It's only a tingle of rectitude we feel, according to this, when the bad girl finally gets hers. There's even...
Eschewing "Harvard's Puritan Heritage," this saucy and heretickal Fellowe Elponseth instead ye visions Doctrine of "Unitarianism." He difparageth further that goode and great Gentleman ye Reverend Doctor Cotton Father...
...business. While Best Foods and Great Foods stalled by saying they would work with the FDA to resolve the dispute, P&G went ahead and announced it would drop the offending words from Crisco -- and also voluntarily remove the "no cholesterol" claim from Duncan Hines cake mixes, Fisher Nuts, Puritan Oil and Pringle's potato chips...
Frankly, I think Harvard's position reflects a prissiness worthy of Cotton Mather. Such attitudes were generally purged from our institution when Channing redirected the moral and ethical standards away from John Harvard's Puritan heritage toward the very liberal philosophies of Unitarianism...
...basis of canola's virtues, American sales have doubled over the past two years, though canola still accounts for only 2.3% of all oils consumed in the U.S. Four years ago, Procter & Gamble converted its Puritan cooking-oil line from a soy-sunflower blend to 100% canola. Earlier this year Dean Foods, a Virginia-based company, rolled out a margarine rich in canola. Next year Frito-Lay plans to introduce SunChips, corn chips fried in canola oil. This surge of interest has caused a boomlet in Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, where growers are starting to plant acreage...