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...topical information, what do they want to read? For a good while, publishers believed they had the answer: entertainment, mostly, though preferably veiled as roundtable-worthy deliberation. They therefore spent much of the 90s working to combine this public desire with the industry’s newfound quick-response ethic. The result? The “instant book”—a cheap and profitable species of paperback. Furthermore, publishers pounced on so-called “hot-button” books, which dealt with the sensational, the “exclusive,” the controversial...
...good ideas (the album has at least five guest artists). Kicking off with the rollicking horn-driven “Pá Lante,” Ozo come rolling out with infectious energy. The track is almost surprisingly straight up, given the mix ’n match ethic of the rest of the album: There are no guests, and no breaks into turntable spins or hip-hop mode—just the euphoric, impossibly upbeat vibe that is possibly Ozo’s biggest gift to mankind...
...almost absurd to mention conservatism and punk music in the same breath, but that’s the very point we hope to make. In order to battle a stubborn social and commercial hierarchy, the punks are forced to adopt their own equally stubborn and doctrinaire ethic about what should and should not be done. Within the punk culture, the political spectrum is inverted, but equally rigid: The hard-nosed right of the punk movement, the purists, hold all of the principles we’ve just mentioned to be self-evident truths, and would sooner stop listening to music...
What, then, about the punk as musician? Clearly, the situation of the punk musician is somewhat untenable, since he has an allegiance both to the decidedly anti-commerical punk ethic and to the musician’s ideal of sharing and disseminating music. This is the conflict at the root of most punk “sellouts...
...WORK ETHIC College students who hold part-time jobs perform better academically than those who either work full time or don't work at all, according to a study by Upromise, a Massachusetts administrator of college-savings plans. The study suggests that working 10 hours a week or less more frequently cuts into nonproductive activities like watching TV than keeps students from their homework. Full-timers, though, are more likely to drop...