Word: ethically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scotland, converting the rambunctious Catholic country with messages of doom. Puritan Jonathan Edwards shook the New World when he called the colonials "sinners in the hands of an angry God." Early in the 20th century, German Sociologist Max Weber found in Calvinism the seedbed of capitalism, a "Protestant ethic" that drove men to accumulate wealth as evidence of divine approval...
...industry and transit which would employ many more people--and which would signal the end of bondage to outmoded economic ideas. President Carter can use his discipline on those, like the oil companies, who could use it, and give the rest of us a shot at the Puritan work ethic...
...neon American flag blinks omnisciently. A man in an executioner's leather mask watches from the side. Pacino's partner spins and flicks his blond curls. The drum pounds louder, the montage quickens, the American flag flashes, glaring like a Puritan God, a caretaker of the Judaeo-Christian sex ethic, a last warning before...
...comfort of a merciful death to a condemned prisoner. But, argue the authors, "surely this is begging the issue, as the person soon to be killed by the state is hardly analogous to the dying patient." Curran, who with other members of a Harvard committee conceived a "brain death" ethic (which calls for the cutting off of artificial life supports after brain activity ends), brands the doctor's role in death by injection one of "active killing." Adds Casscells, perhaps as an appeal to unconvinced colleagues: "The moral issue is difficult. But the political issue is that...
This journalistic ethic, the "if it's there we print it" attitude that Woodward crows so feistily, is mere bravado. In the first place, the book could conceivably hurt the court's ability to enforce its will in some important cases. Although the authors are quick to point out that they stayed away from "contemporaneous" cases, clearly the reasoning used in reaching one busing decision might affect the next such case, and it takes very little to fan the flames of anti-busing sentiment in this country. To let the chips always fall where they may probably won't hurt...