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Decent reviews for former New York Times executive editor Max Frankel's memoirs: Ward Just calls it a "a smart, tough, scrupulous book" in the New York Times Book Review ; in that fair journal's traditional negative-comment spot (the penultimate paragraph) all Just can come up with is that there's "a whiff of the puritan about Max Frankel, and perhaps also the rustle of score-settling."
The outrage it has prompted isn't the Puritan kind; it's more like legitimate revulsion at watching a blowhard pervert people's lives in the name of "larger dramatic truths."
The editorship of Tina Brown is usually credited—more usually, faulted— with that journal's frequent use of the word, and though writers did use it frequently under Ms. Brown, in fact fuck appeared there, spelled in full, in 1985, during the editorship of the puritan William Shawn, in a short story by Bobbie Ann Mason: Maybe you have to find out for yourself.
A Gallant character who cultivates decadent aristocratic airs or tries too hard to hold on to Puritan freshness is at best a self-punishing neurotic, at worst a fool.
Among American universities, Harvard University is the oldest (founded in 1636 as a training ground for puritan ministers), and the richest, and has produced numerous Nobel Prize winners.