Word: ethically
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Chaim Weizmann, the leader, died back in 1946, when he lost control of the world Zionist organization to the activists led by David Ben-Gurion. He had always opposed violence as a betrayal of the Jewish ethic, but Israel, perhaps necessarily, was born with war as the midwife. Weizmann was brushed aside and became a figurehead, enshrined, for past services, in a beautiful home in Rehovoth, surrounded by delicate Ming porcelains and modern French paintings...
...junior attempted to explain his stand to a gathering of over 40 people. He stated that his first principle is the love ethic, "If I seek only to love, who has power ever me? ... As I follow love, I am subject only to my nature as situations arise. Who had power over Socrates...
...average American, Author Halsey believes, is a double man. Thanks to his nation's moral traditions, the American is still taught as a child "the Judeo-Christian ethic" of "yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness." Then the morally instructed child grows into a businessman to whom "aggression, competitiveness and skepticism" are represented as the only ways of "being on the ball" and "going places." During working hours, the businessman plays to the hilt the role of the "smooth operator." Evenings and weekends, he attempts to revert to the honest, kindly role of principled Christian and loving father...
...regions most dominated by the Puritan ethic that alcoholic excess appears most pronounced. Where the social group withdraws its approval from drinking, it becomes either a solitary vice or a wickedness covertly shared with a few boon companions. This type of alcoholism is allied not so much to poverty as to conflict within the personality. It is to be found in countries such as the U.S.A. and Sweden, which have experimented in prohibition. These two countries head the list . . . issued by the World Health Organization [last year] as having the highest proportional number of alcoholics-Italy, that great wine-drinking...
...snapped Dr. Ivy. "The spirit of the ethic ... is to prevent a physician from attracting patients and making money by saying he has a secret remedy. In the case of Krebiozen, the drug has been given without charge during our investigations. No one has made any money, or attempted to attract patients. Regardless of the decision of the society, I am not guilty of a breach of medical ethics...