Word: ethically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movement's members are mostly under 35, although an older fringe of over-50s is also active. Most of them vigorously reject the traditional German work ethic, sense of order, loyalty to family and security in favor of nebulous concepts of self-determination and grass-roots activism. They oppose nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. The alternatives are passionate about a clean and safe environment, about women's rights as well as those of oppressed minorities like immigrant workers and homosexuals. Says Carl Amery, 60, Bavarian writer, environmentalist and Green Party member: "The alternative movement is trying to recapture...
...most part, the authors who have analyzed Johnson's life in light of this puzzle have produced shallow, incomplete answers--a succession of talky, pseudo-psychoanalytic books that attribute his obscure and confusing sides to mother-love, or father-hatred, or a desire to enforce the ethic of the Alamo upon an Eastern Establishment he secretly envied...
...outlaw litter, tax cheating, illicit noise and motorized anarchy-when it seems as though the scofflaw represents the wave of the future. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman suspects that a majority of Americans have blithely taken to committing supposedly minor derelictions as a matter of course. Already, Riesman says, the ethic of U.S. society is in danger of becoming this: "You're a fool if you obey the rules...
Third, the nature and focus of our research institutions themselves could be dramatically affected by these new agreements. In hearings before my Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee, distinguished scientists expressed their concerns that these agreements could jeopardize the research priorities of institutions and place great strains upon the ethic of scientific openness that has helped to generate our greatest discoveries...
Wilson called for a more objective conservation ethic based on a scientific appreciation for the diversity in nature. He expressed the hope that knowledge of the "endless magic well" of nature would lead to a sound conservation movement...