Word: slothfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus a theoretical point was scored for the ancient opponents of "welfare chiselers." Of course, it would take a Ph.D. in bureaucracy and creative sloth for a harried family to collect such riches. All the same, it does turn the work ethic upside down. The real issue is not so much those who avoid work as those who seek it and cannot find it-those husbandless mothers in particular who, for lack of day-care centers, cannot go to a job even when one is available...
...because as soon as I try to redefine the word I lose my case. The difference is that four years ago a feminist defined herself in opposition to the square sexist world. She was a naysayer to a tradition of role playing grown dyspeptic, practicing toughness instead of timidity, sloth instead of chic, either anti-sex or sexually liberated. Today the trap is complicity...
...easier to appreciate Senator Ervin's counterpoint. After a year of judicial sloth, he and his colleagues argued, television has actually accelerated justice. Facts that seemed irretrievable are now brought out in microseconds. Mystery figures are exposed as quite ordinary men. The conspiracy and cover-up no longer seem the work of shrewd political masterminds. Indeed, the figures on the screen are frightening not for their brilliant malevolence but because of their very ordinariness...
Clarkson's win was fairly easy--Harvard men looked sloth and sleazy...
...Seven Deadly Sins, gluttony has received the least attention from this generation. Judging from the reception accorded to unchastity and sloth, the neglect can only be attributed to ignorance, not lack of interest...