Word: puritans
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...some further legal protection against credit abuses, and they need much more counseling in the techniques and costs of borrowing. But in the end, no one can protect the crediholic from himself. Hedonistic though it is, the Credit Society reserves its greatest rewards for those who practice that most puritan virtue: selfdiscipline...
Flynt remains a puritan about his work. He puts in 18-hour days, personally approves all Hustler and Chic photo layouts and edits many manuscripts himself. "When I see a long word that I don't know, I take it out," he says. Lately Flynt has hired experienced editors to help him, waged a high-minded campaign against smoking and scored a minor coup by signing Norman Mailer to do an interview with John Ehrlichman-for $12,500. Untaken offers include $1 million each to Gloria Steinem, Raquel Welch, Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Barbara Walters, among others, to pose...
Sally brings with her one possession, one consolation, one lifeline to the Brave New World she rather wishes she had been born into-her television set. James is a puritan: a beekeeper, a man who splits elm at 20° below zero, a myth maker whose hero is Ethan Allen, not the Fonz. James hates Snoopy, Coca-Cola, California, astronauts (they are there to "undo him") and, above all, television. One night James takes out his 12-gauge shotgun and blasts away at Sally's picture tube as if it were the devil's eye; when she objects...
...most successful sections are those which mange to interweave the personal with the political. The entry for Samuel Prescott, for exampel, tells the perhaps n ot untypical story of one Puritan's growing tolerance for free expression, resulting in part from his own foray into sexual philandering. The sexual peccadilloes of Basil Litchfiled--who lives with a half-crazed wife and hides his homosexual yearnings from his Unitarian colleagues--also sustain dramatic interst...
...Maine -are almost as familiar, though less physiognomical, to his audience as those of Johnny Carson, Richard Nixon or Bugs Bunny. Moreover, everything is distinct. One gets every last blade of grass on the cold hill, delivered in low, muted colors that suggest a kind of flinty and puritan sincerity. Small wonder, then, that a large public considers Wyeth the Great American Artist-or that the opposition to him has been, in some quarters, as violent and irrational as the worship. For it is also the custom to attack Wyeth as a mere illustrator, dazzling the midcult beast with...