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...Game of Chance. Leading spokesman on the Ways and Means Committee for that view was ranking Republican John Byrnes of Wisconsin, a tax expert, who argues that "the 'Puritan ethic' is a lot stronger in this country than some people think." Applying the Puritan ethic to the tax bill, Byrnes offered an amendment that would have prevented the second stage of the tax cut from taking effect on schedule in 1965 unless Kennedy met two conditions beforehand: limiting his fiscal 1965 budget to $98 billion-$800 million under the present budget; and keeping the net national debt below...
...House floor, it will be treated under a "closed rule" barring floor amendments and limiting debate to two days. Even so, says Byrnes, "we will give them fits on the floor." Once voting begins, Byrnes can move to recommit the bill to Ways and Means to reconsider his "Puritan ethic" amendment. But the Administration is counting on mustering enough votes to defeat such a motion and send the bill on to the Senate...
...commentators, who cannot resist speculating on the hallucinogens. Why do intellectuals take the drugs? What are the implications for society? David F. Ricks and Chase Mellen reduce the whole issue to escapism. Ricks talks about despair, ennui and neurosis, Mellen about the contradictions between peyote eating and the Protestant ethic. But neither really faces the fact that ingesting psychedelics is different from taking heroin or watching television. S. Clarke Woodroe goes a bit deeper. Discussing the drug experiences of Baudelaire, de Quincey and other writers, he makes some interesting points about the relation between drugs, megalomaniac delusions, and intellectual creativity...
...problem of Harvard today," he said, "is the conflict between the Puritan ethic--work as an end rather than a means--and the older idea that a philosophic principle of leisure is essential to true creativity. The failure to appreciate this is the reason we are all too busy around here. Empty space must be filled with often purposeless activity. We do not understand correctly what we are doing or why we are doing it, and this brings about much of the tension often bordering on neurosis that so often afflicts us and affects the quality of our work...
James did not achieve this remarkable breadth of treatment without some sacrifice. Not all of his notions are operationally verifiable, nor does he always escape self-contradiction. Yet his transgressions of the scientific ethic must not be taken too seriously. He persistently applied himself to real problems, to ones of great human import. And though James, with characteristic hospitality, would welcome the use of computer models and animal studies, he would have protested vehemently against sacrificing the fullness of life for a manageable but sterile fragment...