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Students who are over 18 and have not worked would not be covered by this bill, reflecting the present "work ethic" in the Ways and Means Committee, Caper added...
...infinitely correctible. But Heilbroner now doubts that mankind can be brought to care enough about the future to do what is necessary to save the present - especially as regards self-denial. Can 20th century civilization give up the "ethos of 'science' " (not to mention the work ethic) and for sake the now monstrous ideal of growth for the ideal of stability? Heilbroner sees little reason to expect that either of the two main socioeconomic systems will manage such self-abnegation. Both capitalism and socialism, he argues, share the values of technology - production and efficiency - with small regard...
Terkel: At the time Andre made that suggestion, we were just starting to question the quote-unqoute "work ethic" that Honest Dick talks about so much. There was that moment when we had that leisure after the Depression--post-World War II, in the sixties--when young people began to question, and say, "I want to do what I want to do, what I like to do." Well, that caught on in a way [laughs]--strangely enough. And so you got the young auto workers--young auto workers--absent on Mondays or Fridays: "Fuck it, doing all that stuff...
...hope lies not in the perpetuation of the individuality which characterizes the Harvard meritocracy and the general society. But in a sense a community exists at Harvard--superficially in House dining rooms, and, more profoundly, in the community of resignation. What Harvard needs--what American society needs--is an ethic of aspiration, and this will only come from individuals, gifted, perceptive and ambitious. The Harvard student's yearning is a significant indication that values, tradition and needs of the future can be joined to develop authentic individuals. To conserve any individuality a belief and a hope expressible in the style...
However, Harrington is not optimistic about the future of the federal government even if Nixon is replaced. "Enough people are having their dream or illusion of the ethic of their government shattered so that they are now prepared to accept some fundamental questions about the nature of the government, the delivery of services and the degree of leadership...