Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps some of our good legislators will read this fine article of yours before trying to vote us back into the Victorian era of Puritanism. CLARENCE GOODALL JR. Phoenix, Ariz...
...Christian call to make a mark, to take a stand, to be counted in the struggle against evil, is not an invitation to put the clock back to Victorian days. It does not mean that we are to become rigid and aggressive moralists with a strict and firm answer to every ethical problem. But it does mean that we are committed to the conviction that there is an answer to be found. We may not always know what is right and what is wrong, but we are to live by the belief that right and wrong are words with power...
...palmy Victorian days when Kipling's Tommy Atkins called the British army the "thin red line of 'eroes," few Englishmen could predict how thin the line might get. On the troubled island of Cyprus, in beleaguered Aden, and within the threatened Malaysian Federation, in recent weeks the line seemed stretched to the breaking point. Indeed, alarmed at the frequency with which British troops are dispatched to overseas trouble spots, the London Daily Telegraph harrumphed: "Officers who hold the Queen's Commission cannot be air-freighted without ceremony from their lawful appointments. British battalions cannot be whistled about...
...popularized version, became one of the chief forces that combined against Puritanism. Gradually, the belief spread that repression, not license, was the great evil, and that sexual matters belonged in the realm of science, not morals. A second force was the New Woman, who swept aside the Victorian double standard, which was partly based on the almost universally held notion that women-or at any rate, ladies-did not enjoy sex. One eminent doctor said it was a "foul aspersion" on women to say they did. The celebrated 2nd century Physician Galen was (and is) often incompletely quoted...
...gate to a new depth and joy in personal relationships between husband and wife." Ironically, it is Communism, having long ago silenced all its bold talk about "free love," which may be the most puritanical force in the world today. In 1984, George Orwell attributed the old Victorian code to his fictional dictatorship: "goodsex" was marital intercourse without pleasure on the part of the woman, "sexcrime" was everything else...