Word: ethically
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...between the simplistic views of his audience and the kind of complexity that never works on stage except in Shakespeare. Shaffer's portrayal of Strang's parents reveal him at his weakest. The father is a self-proclaimed atheist and Marxist, but a sternly Puritan advocate of the work ethic, who, it turns out, is also a patron of dirty movies. The mother is an indulgent Christian who takes the first opportunity to renounce any responsibility she may bear for her son's condition: Alan was a fine boy until the Devil came along, she says. It is enough...
...ways to spend at home. Kuwait expanded one of the world's most all-encompassing welfare states. To hold down food prices, most of the big oil producers subsidized imports of staples. Office buildings, low-rent apartments and supermarkets rose almost everywhere. Some planners worried about keeping a work ethic going. Said a Saudi government minister: "We will have to be very careful not to spoil our citizens. Our people will have to deserve what they earn. We will furnish them with basic requirements, but nobody should live on charity...
...Third Force in itself," he says. "I know it sounds amorphous as hell. So you have to ask the people if they want, say, a non-returnable-bottle bill or coastal protection. Then you attach those specifics to the abstraction. You make them realize that without the Third Force ethic-that government can be responsive, that America can still work-you cannot realize the specifics...
...activities within a social context, while having deep roots in the history of 20th century European art, is fundamentally foreign to the individualistic tradition in the United States." No effort, no matter how brusque, could make a Yankee-myth existential art hero of this methodical sexagenarian, enacting his work ethic in a studio organized down to the last pencil stub...
Except that the world of those hymns, the world Ives liked to think had shaped the New England Transcendentalists, didn't quite coincide with the world he lived in. There'd been a double-sidedness to the tradition the Transcendentalists came from from the beginning: The Protestant ethic would later be interpreted as the spirit of capitalism. But in Ives's time, in an increasingly corporate economy featuring the aggressive salesmanship and "authoritative data" whose identity with "real life" he confidently asserted, things were still more complicated. Sometimes the divergence between the love for the tranquil American past Ives thought...