Word: surveyance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans are more concerned than ever before about the problems of morals and ethics. The concern ranges over the whole spectrum of society, from student violence and changing sex habits to venality among public officials and conflicts of interest in the business world. In his latest survey for TIME, Louis Harris has undertaken a study of moral attitudes among Americans in an effort to illuminate the changing U.S. moral climate. The results produce ample evidence that, despite considerable indignation at what they believe to be unjust, Americans in general are far more permissive about morals than they were only...
...Perhaps the most dramatic evidence in the entire poll on how rapidly American morality is changing," says the survey, "is the rise-and the admission of that rise-in what would surely have been considered highly serious moral infractions only a short time ago." The number of people who say that they know someone who commits adultery has risen from 24% to 36% since 1964; 15% now-v. 10% then-virtually admit to instances of adultery in their own family. In other areas, 13% know someone whose child uses marijuana, 59% know someone who drinks too much, 22% know someone...
...striking finding is that most Americans regard the violation of traditional morality as a lesser wrong than the attempt to disguise such violation with hypocrisy. The survey confirmed this indictment by posing situations in which respondents had to pass comparative judgment on various types of miscreants, "respectable" and otherwise. Common criminals, militants and the sexually promiscuous almost always came out better across the entire Harris sample than the prototypical Establishment figure who violates a trust. Examples...
Despite the opportunities, however, today's graduates are surprisingly reluctant to seize them. Six years ago, an estimated 30% of the students at Northwestern University were undecided on a career. This year a survey showed that the undecideds amount to 54%. A Harvard senior expressed the prevailing mood: "If I'm alive and out of,jail when I'm 30, we'll see what happens." Even if he manages to come to a decision then, the chances are that he will not stay put. It is estimated that more than half the present June graduates will...
Behind their faith that dreams produced superior art, some Romantics pursued a corollary faith: that opium produced superior dreams. In a gracefully written, witty survey, British Scholar Alethea Hayter skeptically checks out a few case histories...