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...marriage that little time, or energy, is left over. The commuters, say researchers, single-mindedly await the day when they can become ordinary one-city folk again."They are functioning on 'deferred gratification,' " says Sociologist Sussman. They are, in other words, the new troops of the Protestant ethic, enduring hardship now for the sake of better days ahead. - By John Leo. Reported by Maureen Dowd/ Washington and Nancy Pierce Williamson/New York, with other bureaus
...quintessentially beautiful person. Trow does a capable job of portraying Ertegun and his set and depicting the rise of someone of Ertegun's entrepreneurial ilk. But Trow falls short when he ladles the commentary and the terminology of the first essay onto Ertegun and company. Undoubtedly, the ethic of agreement and the consequent problems it creates have their influence in the fast world of the music industry and the jet set. But there are other things at work in the incredible opportunism and hypocrisy that Trow documents...
Posner moves from his re-definition of an ethical system, one based on economic prosperity, into an intriguing examination of justice, wealth, and government in primitive societies. Posner asserts that the common law evolved in Western societies in the way that it did because judges were trying in accordance with the ethic of efficiency, to maximize the wealth of society though their decisions. This is a natural impulse, Posner says, because economic theory can explain the legal institutions of pre-literate cultures. Beginning with an imaginative look at the social institutions found in Homeric epics, Posner incorporates modern anthropological studies...
...similarly impossible to prove. There lies Sowell's problem. Imploring readers to set aside prejudice, to look honestly at causes and effects, makes little sense when those "causes" must travel thousands of miles with the immigrants that populated America. The Italian suspicion of education and the feudal Japanese work ethic may have survived both their ocean voyages and their integration into the larger American society...
What emerges from these insights to the business of acquisition is a warped success ethic intrinsic to collecting. A man's measure becomes the sum of his acquisitions. A piece of art becomes nothing more than a trophy at the end of the race, a testament of the winner's endurance. Hoving's protests to the contrary, the book chronicles the sublimation of his love for art to the grander passion of the hunt. His goals are stated clearly in the diary entry he reproduces from the beginning of his career: "I want nothing more than success. Success, adulation--notice...