Word: ethically
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...former vice president for research at General Motors, is filled with quirky racist observations. Many black men in U.S. ghettos "still hold to their African traditions," it says. "They insist on preserving their jungle freedoms, their women, their avoidance of personal responsibility and their abhorrence of the work ethic." Hall told the legislators she had not really co-authored the book, only "edited" it. As an editor, she claimed, "you don't need to understand what you're reading." An Administration official said that Hall was recommended by retired Lieut. General Daniel Graham, whose book on Star Wars she also...
Screenwriter Arlen has a fine ear for Texas cadences: "Darlin', these biscuits are old enough to vote." More impressive, she creates in Shang an American hero whose every good impulse--pride, the work ethic, a need to stand firm for what he figures is his--turns him into a monster with a red neck. The script would have been even stronger if Dinh had been allowed some convulsive ambiguities of his own. Instead, he must simply endure, selfless and sexless. Such is the yellow man's burden in films of the liberal persuasion...
...grand occasions on the court, and was the play-off MVP of 1981, now and then in the ordinary going he throttles down for an evening as if idling at a building project. This mildly annoys most of the other players, but it galls Bird, whose farm-bred ethic makes no allowance for sidewalk superintendents...
...argument but also the entire Black population of this country. His piece falsely portrays the latter as a culturally and politically monolithic group. Falling prey to a "romantic realism," Mr. Farley contrasts the inherent honesty, virtue, and simple "traditional customs" of Blacks with the materialistic, so-called, "yuppie ethic" of whites...
...best to reverse these recalcitrant policies and attitudes toward American homosexuals. It is ironic that gay people, whose average income is above the national average should be so abhorred by the Right; homosexuals, as an economically successful and politically active group, seem to exemplify the American work ethic and the ideological purity which conservative uphold as praiseworthy goals. Tolerance, a fundamental American concept, has been forgotten by a President who vows to thwart various Americans' attempts to secure their inalienable rights. President Reagan should wipe his slate clean and grant homosexuals what he promised the rest of American...