Word: ethic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political radical sees society in need of an equally profound uprooting of the entire value-structure, replacing the capitalist ethic of each-man-for-himself-and-God-help-the-one-who-fails by the ethic of service for the universal good. The radical is led, in turn, to the inescapable conclusion that the only tactic open to him is to stake out a community of people who share the same life-style. Such a community would tend to have the same political beliefs as well because one's individual orientation towards one's fellow beings cannot help but influence...
Still, whether offering hall trees ("Money won't buy more stylish goods") or watches ("Almost given away"), Sears appealed to a buying public that was then largely rural and firmly bound by the Puritan ethic: waste was sinful, and so were fripperies. But it was also an epoch when ordinary folks were beginning to yearn for "nice things" and even a few luxuries-if they were cheap enough and guaranteed to be durable. It was an enjoyment simply to peruse the bargains offered in men's toupees and nerve pills, mowing machines and dog-powered churns, foot scrapers...
...bill, the court was persuaded that legislators of the time were well aware of the law's broad implications. Still, said Justice John Harlan in dissent, 100 years ago few legislators really contemplated as much reach as the court has found in the act: "The individualistic ethic of their time emphasized personal freedom and embodied a distaste for governmental interference. It seems to me that most of these men would have regarded it as a great intrusion on individual liberty for the government to take from a man the power to refuse for personal reasons to enter into...
...Andover as once being, "jocks, jet-set (very preppy socialites), and non-entities." Now, he says, there is a third and dominant group which could be classified the "hip people." But drugs are not the trademark of the hip people, he explained. The hip people share "the love ethic...
...love ethic" is as good a phrase as any for the air of optimism and ease that has appeared on the Andover campus in this spring. Those who use drugs do so in their rooms. The administration will kick them out if they're caught. But the school isn't trying to catch them as they are at Exeter...