Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former vice president for research at General Motors, is filled with quirky racist observations. Many black men in U.S. ghettos "still hold to their African traditions," it says. "They insist on preserving their jungle freedoms, their women, their avoidance of personal responsibility and their abhorrence of the work ethic." Hall told the legislators she had not really co-authored the book, only "edited" it. As an editor, she claimed, "you don't need to understand what you're reading." An Administration official said that Hall was recommended by retired Lieut. General Daniel Graham, whose book on Star Wars she also...
Once the epitome of the helter-skelter ethic of life on the lam, authorities say, the Angels of late have embraced business-school techniques to run their operations, using computers to manage administrative and financial matters and imposing strict accountability on drug dealers. Each chapter of the Angels contributes profits from its deals to a national treasury. "Motorcycle gangs have come a long way in recent years," said FBI Agent James Greenleaf. "They are much more sophisticated than most people in society would expect...
Screenwriter Arlen has a fine ear for Texas cadences: "Darlin', these biscuits are old enough to vote." More impressive, she creates in Shang an American hero whose every good impulse--pride, the work ethic, a need to stand firm for what he figures is his--turns him into a monster with a red neck. The script would have been even stronger if Dinh had been allowed some convulsive ambiguities of his own. Instead, he must simply endure, selfless and sexless. Such is the yellow man's burden in films of the liberal persuasion...
...grand occasions on the court, and was the play-off MVP of 1981, now and then in the ordinary going he throttles down for an evening as if idling at a building project. This mildly annoys most of the other players, but it galls Bird, whose farm-bred ethic makes no allowance for sidewalk superintendents...
...argument but also the entire Black population of this country. His piece falsely portrays the latter as a culturally and politically monolithic group. Falling prey to a "romantic realism," Mr. Farley contrasts the inherent honesty, virtue, and simple "traditional customs" of Blacks with the materialistic, so-called, "yuppie ethic" of whites...