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«Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.»
Author: Florence King
| Keywords:
faith healing, fundamentalism, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, Good Cheer, hymn, hymns, intellectualism, pink, puerile, rambunctious, regression, rose pink, vanished
«Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
cunning, cunning man, infancy, justly, mothers, obedience, obtain, propriety, protection, puerile, scrupulous, softness, termed
«God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Change,
Country,
Hate,
Society,
Vanity
| Keywords:
conceited, old country, puerile, senility, sophisticated
«The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
avocation, levels, low-level, puerile, schoolmaster