Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...controversy once again spotlighted the shadowy tightrope of paradoxes that the Helmsmen must walk in the interests of a nation that cherishes openness and fair play. The debate pitted the Puritan ethic against the pragmatism of cold-war survival. It matched the conspiratorial methods necessarily practiced by intelligence agencies against the emotionalism of young Americans who worship honesty. It aroused the outrage of many in the academic community who-mistakenly-regard CIA as an evil manipulator of foreign policy. And the furor showed again how readily Americans, who, while seldom acknowledging the quiet and generally successful performance of their intelligence...
...left, founder in 1928 of London's immensely successful Victor Gollancz Ltd. (among his authors: Daphne du Maurier, George Orwell, John le Carré, Kingsley Amis), who was born into an orthodox Jewish family, but chose instead to live out what he regarded as "the Christian ethic," becoming an ardent socialist and Labor Party pamphleteer in his politics and a humanitarian in all else, espousing such diverse causes as the abolition of capital punishment, postwar relief for Germany, aid for Arab refugees of the Arab-Israeli war, and most surprisingly, clemency for Nazi Murderer Adolph Eichmann; of a stroke...
...could be called the "production ethic." Sixty-one per cent of the girls who answered the questionnaire spend four or more hours a day on homework, and less than two per cent spend as little as two hours a day studying. Seventy-three per cent reported that they kept up in their assignments as opposed to cramming for the exams. The average grade for the group is between a C-plus and B-minus...
...there are a few aspects of the academic policy at Wellesley which tend to denigrate the college's otherwise remarkable achievements in this sphere. They are the manifestations of three factors: the production ethic, the slowness to liberalize the college, the lack of endowment available to women's colleges generally (although for a women's college, Wellesley is well-endowed...
Tomorrow: The Gray Book, the production ethic, the folklore, and some prognosticating...