Word: ethical
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...full-dress policy statement since he succeeded the late Terence Cardinal Cooke as chairman of the bishops' Pro-Life Activities Committee. Bernardin's speech appeared to signal a renewed effort by the American church to redirect the country's thinking on what the Cardinal called the "ethic of life." It was an attempt to get liberals to re-examine the morality of abortion. Equally it was an appeal to those conservatives who condemn abortion to extend their pro-life commitment to opposing the nuclear arms race and capital punishment...
WHEN HUGH HEFNER founded Playboy magazine in 1953, he did little to help foster the sexual revolution; instead, his radical publication helped stimulate the rise of consumerism while maintaining what was ultimately a "clean" sexual ethic. This is one of the more provocative arguments feminist author Barbara Ehrenreich puts forth in The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment, which offers a fresh approach to the battle of the sexes. Written with wit, style, and no small degree of social insight, this important book significantly challenges popular beliefs about the women's movement and the current anti...
Ehrenreich begins her inquiry with the traditional "breadwinner ethic," according to which the goal of every male was maturity, and maturity meant not only emotional but also material responsibility to a wife and family. Ehrenreich illustrates the discontent that prompted the various types of male revolt. Besides the Beats, there were those aberrant males who remained unmarried, even homosexual. Whatever their choice of deviance, they were condemned by psychology and popular opinion alike. Predating the Beats, Heiner's supposedly crotic magazine made its initial contribution to this complex scheme. Rather than bringing glossy sex to the pages of America...
Perhaps De Palma and Stone had aspirations of Godfatherhood: an operatic overview of the nation's immigrant black princes, a meticulous dissection of the relationship between crime and Big Business, a celebration of the American power ethic, a warning against corporal or corporate abuse. But Scarface lacks the generational sweep and moral ambiguity of the Corleone saga. At the end, Tony is as he was at the beginning: his development and degeneration are horrifyingly predictable; his death evokes not fear or pity, but numb relief...
...Kennedy School, acted in a background paper prepared for the conference a that "reforms which shift the burden of registration from the citizen to the state represent a sharp departure from some core values of American political culture." He explains that "our voting system still rents on an ethic of voluntarism. We rely on self-motivated individuals to rouse themselves to vote." In general, it is not unreasonable to expect voters to show interest a month before election-day. Along the same lines, though conference participants argued that the vast number of Americans who move each year are unfairly disenfranchised...