Word: ethic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem of Harvard today," he said, "is the conflict between the Puritan ethic--work as an end rather than a means--and the older idea that a philosophic principle of leisure is essential to true creativity. The failure to appreciate this is the reason we are all too busy around here. Empty space must be filled with often purposeless activity. We do not understand correctly what we are doing or why we are doing it, and this brings about much of the tension often bordering on neurosis that so often afflicts us and affects the quality of our work...
James did not achieve this remarkable breadth of treatment without some sacrifice. Not all of his notions are operationally verifiable, nor does he always escape self-contradiction. Yet his transgressions of the scientific ethic must not be taken too seriously. He persistently applied himself to real problems, to ones of great human import. And though James, with characteristic hospitality, would welcome the use of computer models and animal studies, he would have protested vehemently against sacrificing the fullness of life for a manageable but sterile fragment...
...before and after so to speak. Here is a man who lived in China for about fifteen years before the Revolution, speaks the language, and knows personally China's top leaders. Yet he is an American who admires what is most American in the Chinese Revolution--the new work ethic, social equality, and even some of the puritanism. As an American, however, he regretted the controlled press, the extent to which most people's lives are regulated by the state, and most of all the fantastic distortions of American life and policy that the official line perpetrates...
...Puritan Ethic. To argue its case for combining tax cuts with huge budget deficits, the Administration sent up to the Hill a host of persuasive witnesses, including, besides Gordon, Walter W. Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon. But committee members seemed far from persuaded. Even liberal Democrats pronounced themselves disturbed about that dizzying $11.9 billion deficit in the President's budget for fiscal 1964 (beginning next July). Heller, for one, argued that the New Frontier's program would lay open...
Overwhelmed, as I am, by the Protestant ethic and its dour and anal tenets, I felt impaled on an Anglo-Catholic wheel of fire from the moment the titles appeared. The letters (designed by Saul Bass) were all formed from phallic components, decorated with blue vegetable coloring and topped with maraschino cherries. In the background one could make out M. Quouquou and Sr. Picasso rais-Yul Brynner on a flaming cross...