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...race. Even if the villain, at least in part, is technique, it is older and more easily defined things as well, things that people are firmly in control of. Hougan's well-to-do factory workers still have little choice but to be factory workers, and the productivity ethic that makes them unhappy is more the product of those who benefit from that productivity than of any mystical process that generates itself and benefits...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Decline and Fall | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...also appears that Sylvia took to heart every bit of propaganda ever put out by the Protestant ethic, college deans of admission and the slick fashion magazines of the '50s. In addition to grinding out straight A's and submitting potboilers to True, "to keep our pot of caviar boiling," she wanted desperately to be "well-rounded." Thus during weekends at Yale or Princeton Sylvia undertook her blind-date excursions cheerfully, and tried to include them in her mother's vicarious life. "Picture me then," she gloats, "in my navy-blue bolero suit and versatile brown coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Lives | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...Griffin, the Yale work ethic is a new and constructive channeling of energies that used to be spent elsewhere. Not too long ago, he points out, people used to talk a lot about relevance and commitment, terms that "referred to political and social issues, but implied psychologically that you were implicated in what you were doing." His theory is that Yale students are still committed; it is just that they are seeking relevance in pre-med and pre-law courses...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: God and Bladderball At Yale | 11/21/1975 | See Source »

...customers really want smaller portions, and are not sure that selling them will raise profits, since they mean a lower average price collected from each diner. But some experts believe the trend toward smaller servings will accelerate. Says James W. McLamore, president of the National Restaurant Association: "An earlier ethic of conspicuous consumption may be giving way to a current ethic of 'conspicuous conservation.' " The doggy bag just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: War on Big Portions | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

Carter said he plans to streamline what he called "the horrible, bloated, confused government bureaucracy" and to "restore the work ethic" by creating public employment programs for the jobless...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Jimmy Carter Tells Law School Forum He'll Restore Faith | 9/27/1975 | See Source »

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