Word: ethic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ethic's deceptive bordell...
Just as, 14 centuries earlier, they had borrowed the essentials of their nationhood from Asia-the writing and art of China, the advanced mores of Korea, the ethic of Confucius, the religion of Buddha -the Japanese in the Meiji period borrowed the makings of a second way of life, and wrought history's most remarkable transformation. The cocoon of medieval primitivism was broken and Japan emerged a modern world power-the first and only industrial nation of the Orient...
...coffee?" and the great democratic and inflationary shift to "Brother, can you spare a dime?" I have even been held up at pistol point and asked for $1.60 -no more, no less -an experience which Max Weber would somehow have been able to work into his great work Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. But I never expected to live long enough to be panhandled in quite the way I was today...
...ignorance upon which much of the present hysteria is based. The American people are not going to ostracize men who, when questioned, admit they signed peace petitions and marched on picket lines for their own sake. Such actions are too much a part of the accepted political ethic. They only want to know whether he did these things as a Communist. When the man witholds this information by use of the Fifth amendment, the inference is inevitable. Compulsory testimony with immunity, then, will help to separate liberals from Communist in the public mind. By so doing, it will free advocates...
...ages of 18 and 23, joined the communist movement in the United States and left the movement. At the rate of 1000 witnesses a year, the game can keep up until about 2500 AD. It is about time some professor did some writing on this confusion of our national ethic...