Word: ethically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grinspoon suggested several cultural rationalizations for the ban on marijuana. He said that intoxication by marijuana is "an easily gained pleasure which was in conflict with the Protestant ethic of earning whatever is received...
Microbiologist Barry Commoner (TIME cover, Feb. 2) pleads for a complete overhaul of the "progress through technology" ethic. He calculates that the U.S. must completely revamp as much as one-third of its productive system-farming, mining, papermaking and fossil-fuel power generation, for example -to repair damage already done to the ecological system. Commoner figures that not only would the cost be high, but that production itself would suffer in the process. Most economists, on the other hand, contend that total economic output would hardly be changed, and they scoff at the idea that growth itself is the real...
...Soft Openers. Wallace has become a star journalist so rapidly, says CBS Writer-Producer Andrew Rooney, because of his "old still photographer's ethic of Tm going to bring in the story and the hell with everybody else.' " Wallace works harder and longer than anyone else. He is on the road fully one-third of his working life, and spent the New Year's weekend, for instance, tracking down the fugitive Cleaver in Algeria. Preparing for an interview with Judge Clement Haynsworth last month, he immersed himself for eight hours in Senate hearings transcripts, court decisions...
INFLATION. Treadmill inflation has betrayed Middle Americans' faith in the work ethic; American affluence seems infinitely expandable, all right, but prices expand just as rapidly, or more so. Last year, despite his wage increases, the average American worker barely broke even in actual buying power. Inflation has a profound psychological as well as material importance, for it stacks the deck against the old American gamble. The nation has always bet?with extraordinary diligence, skill and luck ?that the promise of opportunity could be redeemed, that the nation's natural fertility would justify the values of hard work and individualism...