Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee that drafted the new Bicker proposals objects to the system's selectivity. "Built upon the selecton process, the hierarchy is the testament to the ethic generated by Bicker--the nebulous concept of 'coolness,'" the proposal reads. What the committee wants is a system similar to Harvard's House application system. Sophomores would list their first three club preferences, which would be respected as much as possible. The effect, of course, would be to make the clubs far more heterogeneous. The proposal would destroy the hierarchy, and a lot of the trauma of the Bicker ordeal. But it would also...
...does not recognize select objection as a valid basis for a CO claim. Consequently, these Harvard CO's try to state their objection to war in terms absolute enough to satisfy the draft board while preserving enough of their situational ethic to satisfy their own integrity. This is a trick which involves sophistications of logic which most draft boards won't appreciate...
...history, indeed embrace change as a virtue in itself. With his skeptical yet humanistic outlook, his disdain for fanaticism and his scorn for the spurious, the Man of the Year suggests that he will infuse the future with a new sense of morality, a transcendent and contemporary ethic that could infinitely enrich the "empty society." If he succeeds (and he is prepared to) the Man of the Year will be a man indeed - and have a great deal of fun in the process...
...Puritanism. This is a generation of dazzling diversity, encompassing an intellectual elite sans pareil and a firmament of showbiz stars, ski whizzes and sopranos, chemists and sky watchers. Its attitudes embrace every philosophy from Anarchy to Zen; simultaneously it adheres above all to the obverse side of the Puritan ethic-that hard work is good for its own sake...
...find a babe lying in a stable. Still, in the early centuries following that birth, giving was relatively simple. It meant giving up, a giving away of one's self or one's worldly goods in imitation of Christ. The matter grew more complex under the Protestant ethic, when gifts were bestowed as a reward or incentive for good behavior. St. Nick was long depicted as a scrawny saint who Carried presents in one hand and birch rods in the other. But the art of giving grows most difficult in this permanent holiday age of affluence, when...