Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dionysian tendencies of the young. There may also be a purely spontaneous swing back to discretion and suggestion. "Writers and film makers," predicts Arthur Koestler, "will discover again that pubic hair is less poetic than Gretchen's braids." It is possible, too, that a decline in the work ethic or a weakening of demand for material goods may disrupt the foundation of a hedonist civilization-the economy...
...talk big? One explanation is that the spirit of the act conflicts with our self-conceptions. The act seems larger because we cannot conceive ourselves doing it. We have been groomed all our lives as the best of young American achievers: dropping out is the ultimate violation of work ethic...
...well-practiced heterosexual and father of four grown offspring, I should like to hazard the guess that a major contributing factor to homosexuality (male and female) in Anglo-American society is the still dominant Pauline ("better to marry than to burn") ethic...
...think you can have too many amours. If you can wait around for someone who means something to you, it's the most rewarding experience." She has had a somewhat less flamboyant personal life than Coco's, but is consumed by a Coco-like work ethic. "Look at Chanel at 86," Lerner points out, "still pinning and ripping. I've never known anyone who is so totally immersed in her work as Kate...
Speaking to a gathering of Brandeis honorary degree candidates in New York, Galbraith said that "the individualist ethic taught at universities. is marvelously in conflict" with a world that is "heavily and increasingly bureaucratic...