Word: puritans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life, when he was dying of TB, he characteristically decided to treat it on a fog-swept island off Scotland's west coast. Evelyn Waugh visited him on his deathbed, and the reactionary Catholic gourmet saw a rare quality in the socialist agnostic puritan. To Cyril Connolly, Waugh solemnly said: "He is very near to God." Told of this, Orwell sniffed: "Waugh is about as good a novelist as one can be while holding untenable opinions...
Courageous, only occasionally embarrassing, They communicates best the troubling reflections of a liberal generation that worked for change and revolution only to find the results horrifying. We were caught, one character observes, "between the Puritan and the pornographer." Calculated to attract the young, the book will most touch the middleaged. Better read than talked about, it will no doubt be more talked about than read...
...worthy object of historical study is human consciousness. His concern is not for the great system-builders and the source of their thought, but for the vitality and diffusion of ideas themselves. His archives are the libraries of second-rate thinkers. For example, he ransacked the effects of the Puritan ministers and aldermen for evidence for his major work, Religion and the American Mind. The Idea has for Heimert a life of its own, conditioned by the physical furniture of reality but also conditioning it. He has little patience with historians who insist that "objective reality" exists, that it alone...
...blue-collar working class and the lower-middle white-collar class, Riesman explained, feel threatened by the blacks or Puerto Ricans moving into their neighborhoods and puzzled by the upper-class and upper-middle-class "anti-Puritan snobs" who seem "to tolerate if not to sponsor the radicals...
...Party, Pinter is governed once again by his vision of woman as the sexual aggressor. The secretary is pallidly but visibly related to the praying-mantis wife in The Homecoming. The character of Sisson was almost perfectly described by Cyril Connolly in The Unquiet Grave when he wrote: "A puritan is incomplete because he excludes that half of himself of which he is afraid, and so the deeper he imprisons himself in his fastidiousness, the more difficulty he has in finding a woman who is brave enough to simulate the vulgarity by which he can be released...