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Constitution, which "showed it is robust enough to survive even the madness of 1990s puritanism"; and the American people, who held their nerve throughout and "were able to distinguish between the President and the man, accepting one even as they acknowledged the flaws in the other."
The cover story calls the failure to find a U.S. distributor for the new film version of Lolita one more example of our misplaced puritanism: "Statutes like ...
The anomaly of this prodigal use of language that would once have been generally regarded as unacceptably obscene is that, even today, it in no way coincides with the usage of the great majority of the audience--any more than did the excessive puritanism of the old production code.
The Yankee's secularized Puritanism combines an enthusiasm for social reform--such as abolitionism, Prohibition, women's suffrage, civil rights, eugenics, and the anti-smoking crusade--with an often-priggish moralism and an apocalyptic horror of "corruption."
The sexual puritanism of the GOP's own right wing undid Livingston, and Hastert cakewalked into the speakership only because he is--fingers crossed--above reproach.