Word: ethically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once upon a time, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants-Puritans and the children of Puritans-clamped a code on America as tight as the pillory. Ramrod stiff with duty, tense with work ethic, the code operated splendidly on the frontier, and more or less adequately until after World War II. But then WASP "defaulted on their birthright of cussedness and irreverence" and turned into what Schrag calls the "plastic WASP." Still claiming to be the model-the only model-for a Good American, the plastic WASP has ended up a crabby tyrant of pallid respectability...
...attitudes on nudity show, Dyan retains a sense of the Puritan ethic. In these days of four-letter words, for example, her efforts to avoid using foul language seem almost selfconscious. She rarely talks about sex, and when she does, she shoots a wicked glance, as if to say, "There, I've said it," like a Girl Scout who has strayed from the campfire...
...Work Ethic. Like many G.M. executives, Gerstenberg was a small-town boy who became a self-made man. He was raised in upstate New York and studied business at the University of Michigan ('31), working part time as a dishwasher to pay expenses. His father once told him to "get a big job with a big company and take things easy." Aided by a friend named H. Whitney Clapsaddle who was employed by G.M., Gerstenberg found a job in 1932 as a timekeeper at the company's Frigidaire division in Dayton. Ever since, he has followed the first...
...that great horsepower as an actress." Murray Head, who plays the young sculptor whom both Daniel and Alex love, manages to catch, in the sweet vacancy of his expression on screen, the "ariel quality of some free agent." Bob is "a cool boy, for whom cool is an ethic. He's damned if he's going to say he misses anyone or is hurt by his girl sleeping with someone else." He is meant to be "morally neutral:" someone who has no wish to do evil, but who, "being a sort of mutant," does not recognize his own cruelty. This...
...hand a statement written by six Christian education executives which maintains that sex is moral if the partners are committed to the "fulfilling of each other's personhood"-pointedly omitting marriage as a prerequisite. The statement, which shows how far some U.C.C. leaders have moved from the sex ethic of their Puritan forefathers, also urges the church to recognize the sexual needs of single persons. The church's synod has not yet discussed the report, and seems unlikely...