They adhered to an old-fashioned and somewhat puritanical morality, and criticized their friend ingrid Bergman for destroying her film career by having an illegitimate child with Roberta Rossellini.
However, the freedom of architectural form was fettered by the puritanical rationalism of orthodox Modernism. Modernist buildings can often be dull standard boxes.
President Obama is right about the need for more responsibility, but for those of you who have been responsible, this is the time to disregard those puritanical whispers and buy something fun.
The solution doesn't lie in puritanical self-restraint or in a defensive insistence that there's nothing wrong.
And how about his generalisations about stuffy, puritanical Anglo-Saxons?
