Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work ethic that Mr. Nixon sanctimoniously extols [Oct. 30] is an Establishment euphemism for our system of organized greed, in which everyone has both hands out grabbing as much as he can for as little work as possible-while at the same time making every effort to avoid paying his fair share of taxes...
...work ethic will never go out of style. The whole aim of life is to have a function that you can work at every waking hour. The work ethic is not in trouble. But working for money just might be, because money alone has become the measure of purpose...
...hidden but related issue; many voters associated the economic pinch not with the war or massive defense spending but with welfare, with social programs that they felt were excessive in their concern for blacks and other minorities. Nixon played on this with his continued attacks on the "welfare ethic," which in a sense was to the '72 drive what "law-and-order" was to the '68 campaign. The nation's mood coming out of the '60s was predominantly one of truculent complacency, rediscovered material comfort, a weariness with those who criticized the U.S., a continued fondness for the old values...
...upon the angle of view. Radicals and some liberals professed to have nightmares of an "unleashed" Nixon, finally free to throw dissenters into jails and to nuke Hanoi if it did not knuckle under. Conservatives held visions of a sturdy figure checking the tide of permissiveness, defending the work ethic against welfare loafers. Some moderates saw in Nixon's record the hope that he would now turn to the nation's neglected social ills; they cited his dramatic initiatives in traveling to Moscow and Peking, and his application of wage and price controls as evidence of his capacity for change...
...ethic, people will still work to live, but fewer will live only to work. As Albert Camus put it: "Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." It will be a long while, if ever, before men figure out ways to make the work of, say, a punch-press operator or a file clerk soul-enriching. While waiting for that millennium-which may require entirely new forms of work -bosses who expect loyalty from their employees should try to satisfy their demands for more freedom, more feeling of participation and personal responsibility...