Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were shared with millions of other U.S. families. They were intoned by Correspondent Charles Kuralt on a CBS Reports documentary titled . . . But What If the Dream Comes True? The script, tough but at times preachy and redundant, gave an engrossing account of Americans' growing malaise over the traditional ethic of success and competition. The show's aftermath in Birmingham was an equally engrossing example of Americans' malaise over the magnifying eye of television...
...order was strongly attacked by Joseph A. Rhodes a junior fellow at Harvard, who called it "a very serious breach of constitutional ethic." Rhodes was the only student member of the Scranton Commission, which was established by President Nixon after the Kent State incident to investigate student unrest...
...more complex than an antiwar document. He sympathetically records, for example, the story of "Mccabe," an intelligent and ambitious college man who joined the Army, passed OCS, then entered Ranger training, partly out of some sense of what Yeats called "the fascination of what's difficult." A personal ethic of excellence propelled him to master the techniques of survival and killing. There is a larger American lesson in him. Mccabe wound up, 27 days after he arrived in Viet Nam, sitting on an armored personnel carrier and calling down artillery to blow apart a Vietnamese village-"women, children, dogs...
...core of the passage quoted above. It is the criminal's "misconduct" that "compels us to send" him to an institution for personal correction. The criminal, now a convict, is to be interred in the institution until he displays a willingness to accept the profit motive and the work ethic in personal practice. In effect, regardless of his acceptance of society's complicity in crime as a theory, the author of this passage rejected the notion in practice. He was and is not alone...
Some 500 U.S. business and industrial firms have been experimenting with a four-day work week-an inventive concept that reconciles the work ethic with the leisure culture. For ten weeks during the summer, the Chicago-based Zenith Life Insurance Co. tried a four-day, 35-hour routine, with half of its 33 employees working Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., the other half Tuesday through Friday. Now Zenith has pronounced the plan a startling success and made the arrangement permanent. Recruiting is easier, absenteeism reduced, overtime pay decreased and employee morale vastly improved...