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...slowly on highways to cut gas consumption, and they should set thermostats on their air conditioners to provide room temperatures about four degrees warmer than usual. That would require from 15% to 20% less electricity. Summed up Nixon: "I believe that the American people must develop an energy-conservation ethic...
Shepard's back-to-the-tribe ethic may make young commune dwellers think their generation has an ally...
...department in 1961, he ran for the city council in his racially mixed neighborhood; he won and has stayed in the 15-member council ever since. He always seems to be the same man under any conditions, representing, says an admirer, the "black sliver of the white puritan ethic...
...republic with the old virtues? Except in the case of the censorship of hard-core pornography, a relatively isolated issue, Kristol is quite evasive when it comes to proposing solutions. In this spring's issue of The Public Interest, he castigates libertarianism by pointing out that the libertarian-capitalistic ethic has permitted large corporations to publish books, make movies, and sponsor television shows which celebrate pornography, denounce the institution of the family, revile the "ethics of acquisitiveness," justify civil insurrections, and so on. The implicit conclusion of his argument is that these things should not be permitted...
...will always be strong individuals who will step forth from "the conditioned mass." Just as evil is a distinguishing characteristic of human beings, so too is the capacity to rebel, to fight against bureaucracy or loss of integrity. In man's relationship to society, May believes, a new ethic is needed for our age-"an ethic of intention, based on the assumption that each man is responsible for the effects of his own actions...