Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Except that the world of those hymns, the world Ives liked to think had shaped the New England Transcendentalists, didn't quite coincide with the world he lived in. There'd been a double-sidedness to the tradition the Transcendentalists came from from the beginning: The Protestant ethic would later be interpreted as the spirit of capitalism. But in Ives's time, in an increasingly corporate economy featuring the aggressive salesmanship and "authoritative data" whose identity with "real life" he confidently asserted, things were still more complicated. Sometimes the divergence between the love for the tranquil American past Ives thought...
...undergraduates writing essays on admissions applications. T.S. Eliot articulated the equivocations that would plague a later generation when he inquired, "Do I dare top eat a peach?" And John Kennedy, a paragon of the man holding the reigns of power, advocated no starry-eyed idealism but a more tangible ethic that sanctioned the sending of troops to Vietnam and the Bay of Pigs...
...family's disintegration, his success in his work, his pursuit of sexual satisfaction, and his fight against insanity, all leading up to a "Something Happened" so horrible as to be beyond recognition or comprehension. The novel, narrated in the first person by Slocum, is an examination of the American ethic and a compelling psychological portrait...
...money, his clout and the relationship between the two were naturally the Senators' main concerns. The witness anticipated them by passing out mimeographed copies of a 72-page statement he had written himself. The subheadings of the statement had a quaint 19th century flavor: "Origin of the Family Ethic," "Grandfather's Early Years," "Influence of My Mother...
...loyalty ethic is strong with Haig. He went. But not blindly. "You won't come out alive," a friend told him. Haig had been through the Cuban missile crisis, made 13 trips to Viet Nam. "I don't think professional public servants have the luxury to play it safe in time of national crisis," he said...