Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entire play, in the Elliots' cramped, drably decorated apartment in Liverpool) finds the greased-up Finney in the early sixties and on a rampage against the hypocrisy of working class morality--his own and that of his married drinking cronfies. The wedded worker's carnal ethic becomes rigid and depraved, Finney insists: rigid because after "a blighter shafts away until he accidentally shafts his way into marriage" his imposed sense of guilt keeps him from shafting on the side; depraved because the same man makes up for his nagging rigidity by "lusting his life away" with "dirty locker-room jokes...
...provide the vital clue to understanding China. "It's the political system at the national level that is less stable. But the family system, the communes in the countryside, the state-owned factories in the cities really run without much ideology, so Mao's thought will become an overarching ethic. The key to the stability of the commune and the factory level is organizational brilliance rather than Mao's thought." Chinese communism, Terrill explains, functions more as a "social morality" while German Marxism serves as a "social science...
...black slave was held to be the property of his owner. "This issue will be the rise and fall of many," Bernie says, because "abortion is a denial of the Judeo-Christian emphasis of the Founding Fathers. They assumed that those who interpreted the law would be of this ethic. The Human Life Amendment will be the last great document of Western Civilization--like God speaking the Abraham, the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation...
...move to the Sunbelt is on! It appears that the rest of this country has discovered the South's faith in God and belief in the Judeo-Christian ethic...
...Limits. Observes TIME's Bolte: "Nobody really knows where the limits of the welfare state are. Sweden, however, could be approaching them. Some businesses are already becoming noncompetitive with foreign manufacturers. The Swedish work ethic has suffered from high taxation and easy welfare. People refuse to work overtime, and the absenteeism rate-now at 10%-is one of the highest in the developed world. Some of the most creative people are opting for self-exile, not only because of bureaucratic harassment but also because conformity has made Sweden a very dull place. Although the welfare state seems to have...