Word: ethic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regions most dominated by the Puritan ethic that alcoholic excess appears most pronounced. Where the social group withdraws its approval from drinking, it becomes either a solitary vice or a wickedness covertly shared with a few boon companions. This type of alcoholism is allied not so much to poverty as to conflict within the personality. It is to be found in countries such as the U.S.A. and Sweden, which have experimented in prohibition. These two countries head the list . . . issued by the World Health Organization [last year] as having the highest proportional number of alcoholics-Italy, that great wine-drinking...
...snapped Dr. Ivy. "The spirit of the ethic ... is to prevent a physician from attracting patients and making money by saying he has a secret remedy. In the case of Krebiozen, the drug has been given without charge during our investigations. No one has made any money, or attempted to attract patients. Regardless of the decision of the society, I am not guilty of a breach of medical ethics...
...want sunshine in the bathroom when you are in it only in the morning and at night? . . . What's wrong with the smell of food if the cooking is good? No privacy? My apartments are for young people who have a different ethic from that of the French or American bourgeoisie. Everybody will be in the salon together or everybody will...
...articles of our creed can be summed up in one phrase: 'the Christian ethic.' The 'Christian ethic' is the Antichrist of the Western world. It is the most insidious and formidable corruption that ever afflicted that world...
...what is our hope? In the famine and thirst! The danger ... is that the hunger and the thirst will be stilled by the frothy pabulum of the 'Christian ethic,' and that the people will be full and yet not fed. But there are signs . . . that the people no longer 'love to have it so.' In the gnawing hunger and the burning thirst is our only hope: 'Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord...