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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 ...
SportsZone, SportsLine, et al practice the anti-gambling puritanism of TV, which dumped its oddsmakers years ago.
Monday was a day on which the European pundits who hadn't yet managed to get their hands on the story rushed to have their belated say, many of them posing as Old World sophisticates bewildered by the simple-minded puritanism of the United States.
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."
In Paris, the conservative Le Figaro repeated the usual French view that Flytrap is a symptom of demented American puritanism.