Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neil story is an interesting study of the New England Puritan work ethic at its finest. O'Neil played guard during a collegiate career at Salem State, where he obtained both his B.A. and M.A. in history. From there he entered the teaching profession at Revere (Mass.) High School in the fall...
...race. Even if the villain, at least in part, is technique, it is older and more easily defined things as well, things that people are firmly in control of. Hougan's well-to-do factory workers still have little choice but to be factory workers, and the productivity ethic that makes them unhappy is more the product of those who benefit from that productivity than of any mystical process that generates itself and benefits...
...also appears that Sylvia took to heart every bit of propaganda ever put out by the Protestant ethic, college deans of admission and the slick fashion magazines of the '50s. In addition to grinding out straight A's and submitting potboilers to True, "to keep our pot of caviar boiling," she wanted desperately to be "well-rounded." Thus during weekends at Yale or Princeton Sylvia undertook her blind-date excursions cheerfully, and tried to include them in her mother's vicarious life. "Picture me then," she gloats, "in my navy-blue bolero suit and versatile brown coat...
...Griffin, the Yale work ethic is a new and constructive channeling of energies that used to be spent elsewhere. Not too long ago, he points out, people used to talk a lot about relevance and commitment, terms that "referred to political and social issues, but implied psychologically that you were implicated in what you were doing." His theory is that Yale students are still committed; it is just that they are seeking relevance in pre-med and pre-law courses...
...customers really want smaller portions, and are not sure that selling them will raise profits, since they mean a lower average price collected from each diner. But some experts believe the trend toward smaller servings will accelerate. Says James W. McLamore, president of the National Restaurant Association: "An earlier ethic of conspicuous consumption may be giving way to a current ethic of 'conspicuous conservation.' " The doggy bag just...