Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Return of the Puritan...
Cotton Mather, great Puritan preacher and educator, hated witches and had 15 children. A Florida descendant of his, also named Cotton Mather, who hates taxes and has 15 chain stores, last week learned that taxes, unlike witches, cannot be burned at the stake...
Executive director is Mrs. Elizabeth Ames, a dynamic, partly deaf, pleasant-featured puritan, now in her early 40s, who combines the social talents of a worldly hostess with the shrewdness of a corporation executive. Yaddo is something like a swanky monastery. Most guests sleep in The Mansion. Working quarters are private studios hidden in nearby groves. Breakfast is at 8:15. Box lunches are delivered to the studios. Until four, no visiting is permitted, and then only with special permission. At dinner, in The Mansion's dining room, six tables accommodate the guests, who are shifted frequently to freshen...
...readers, Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Journey to the End of the Night made strong reading, even in its greatly expurgated translation. But that violent and gory novel is a model of Puritan self-restraint compared with Céline's new, untranslated and probably untranslatable Trifles for a Massacre, current sensation of French literature, in which the novelist's genius for invective, hatred of modern civilization and fertility in cursing it have exploded in an anti-Semitic tirade calculated to end all anti-Semitic tirades, to make Nazis turn green with envy...
...Spin the Plot, We Are Betrayed, No Villain Need Be) reminded critics of Rousseau, Zola, Dostoyevsky, Dreiser, D. H. Lawrence (but not, oddly enough, of Thomas Wolfe). This four-decker autobiographical chronicle told the tormented story of Vardis Fisher's fight to free himself from acute egomania and puritan repressions...