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...slaughter perpetrated by Christian Phalangist forces in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. Israeli forces, though not directly implicated, shouldered much of the blame in the world's press for the massacre, as it had indeed occurred under Israeli auspices. In accordance with a conscientious democratic ethic, Prime Minister Menschem Begin's government conducted a thorough investigation of the conduct of several cabinet ministers. It is a revealing if not pathetic comment on the state of international diplomacy that no official body, Christian or otherwise, was ever asked to scrutinize and publicly condemn the actions of the real murderers...
...social type known as the hipster into a daring pioneer adrift in "the perpetual climax of the present," freed of all moral guides and codes of conduct except the thrumming of his own nervous system. The author specifically disavowed any precedents for this existential frame of mind: "If the ethic reduces to Know Thyself and Be Thyself, what makes it radically different from Socratic moderation with its stern conservative respect for the experience of the past is that the Hip ethic is immoderation, childlike in its adoration of the present (and indeed to respect the past means that one must...
...film dominated by gripping, often painful truth, one character rings especially true when he notes that regardless of the outcome of a long-awaited rumble, "Greasers will still be greasers, and socs will still be socs." "This relentless fact allows the delinquents' ethic to go unchallenged. It goes a long way towards explaining the loneliness and sadness that grips the outsiders in this film and those on the streets today...
...homes of East European immigrants several decades ago. There is pressure to work, and there is also great respect for education." Sociologist William Liu, who directs the Asian-American mental health center at the University of Illinois' Chicago campus, stresses the importance of cultural conditioning. "In the Confucian ethic, which permeates the cultures of China, Japan, Viet Nam and Korea, scholastic achievement is the only way of repaying the infinite debt to parents, of showing filial piety...
...movement's members are mostly under 35, although an older fringe of over-50s is also active. Most of them vigorously reject the traditional German work ethic, sense of order, loyalty to family and security in favor of nebulous concepts of self-determination and grass-roots activism. They oppose nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. The alternatives are passionate about a clean and safe environment, about women's rights as well as those of oppressed minorities like immigrant workers and homosexuals. Says Carl Amery, 60, Bavarian writer, environmentalist and Green Party member: "The alternative movement is trying to recapture...