Word: mcdonagh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a kind of privacy even in the mass. "You find it driving to work, alongside all those other people, but alone with your thoughts," says California's Sociologist Edward McDonagh. "The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond...
...consider tipping demeaning. Many states passed anti-tipping laws (they were repealed after Iowa's Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional in 1919), and there were dozens of anti-tipping leagues. Today some people are fighting hard to revive this spirit. Says U.C.L.A. Sociology Professor Edward C. McDonagh: "Tipping is 'out of season' in our society, but few of us have become aware of it. Why give a gratuity to someone who has Blue Cross coverage?" And in Boston a few years ago, an adman established "Tippers Anonymous," which sells members a $1 book of 30 yellow...