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Fields, a vice president of his family's cemetery company, started by declaring: "Eckhardt represents everything that is wrong with this country. He would destroy the free enterprise system and destroy the work ethic." Charged Fields of the seven-term incumbent: "He voted nine times for busing [to desegregate schools]. He voted against the B-l bomber. He voted for gun control. He voted to give tax dollars to Communist countries...
Having been a church member for over two years while seeing his parents regularly, Wilson said he suspected nothing. "I knew my parents were upset with my choice of religion, my rejection of the consumer ethic, and my lifestyle of undraising in the street, which they thought was degrading to a Harvard man. But I never dreamed that they had given a man a $3000 down-payment to have me deprogrammed," Wilson said...
...rotten, but men use it regularly--on the golf courses and tennis courts, at cocktail parties, and within their circles of family and friends. When women use such tactics, their qualifications are questioned; when men use them they are just winked at. The selective application of this ethic becomes a screen to keep women from climbing corporate ladders...
...craft of treachery. Anthropologist Ruth Benedict, who chronicled the ways of the Dobu tribe in Patterns of Culture, noted that, in their eyes, a "good" and "successful" man was one "who has cheated another of his place." The U.S. is far from living by any such absurd, upside-down ethic. Yet, in the light of today's trends, it can do no harm to ponder the price society pays for the incessant abuse of trust. -By Frank Trippett
Inspired by the do-it-yourself ethic of the British new wave scene, independent labels and imports are exerting an increasingly powerful influence on the American music industry. Devo, Pere Ubu, the Shoes, the Romantics and 20/20 all parlayed self-financed and independently distributed singles or albums into major label deals. Several majors have attempted to keep abreast of the times by striking up distribution deals with leading British independents--Polydor with Radar, CBS with Stiff, Atlantic with Virgin and A&M with the recently formed International Record Syndicate...