Word: ethically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will always be strong individuals who will step forth from "the conditioned mass." Just as evil is a distinguishing characteristic of human beings, so too is the capacity to rebel, to fight against bureaucracy or loss of integrity. In man's relationship to society, May believes, a new ethic is needed for our age-"an ethic of intention, based on the assumption that each man is responsible for the effects of his own actions...
...enforced. Union representatives, in turn, claim that the minimum wage of $1.30 per hour is so low that it is not worth reaching for. If the two sides cannot come together, about $30 million in rotten fruit will soon fall in between them-pulpy proof that the welfare ethic and the work ethic must find some common ground...
China works! In the states, you can't get a plumber for love or money, but China is the very embodiment of the "work ethic" we have been hearing so much about lately. No wonder, then, that Nixon was reportedly exhilarated by the sight of 200,000 Chinese clearing snow in unison, or that Alsop was most impressed by the fact that under Mao, the Chinese people are "unremittingly hard working." Or that, by comparison with the needle-popping U.S. Army, the Chinese "New Model Army" inspired Alsop to write lyrically: "All the men appeared to be singularly tough, dedicated...
...this young anachronism speaking for the Protestant ethic? Frank Manton happens to be a lately discovered Alger hero, previously presented in an 1889 magazine serial but never collected in hard-cover among the more than 100 novels of Alger-style success that have sold from 100 million to 400 million copies, depending on which literary historian you believe...
...about the spirit, the soul? No man can serve two masters. I still prefer the old religious ethic and Goethe's Werther to Nabokov's Lolita...