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Citizens today can rattle off long lists of immoralities and immoralists. A committee sponsored by Catholic bishops in 1974 printed a typical roll call of contemporary villains: shoplifters, trashers, blue-collar time-clock cheaters, white-collar expense-account padders, tax evaders, political bribe takers, perjurers, economic exploiters, sexual revolutionists, the maritally unfaithful, pornographers, irresponsible mass communicators and those responsible for violent crime. But a mere listing does not do justice to the sense of disease and malaise that is in our hearts, the disappointment and disgust often felt between generations as moral standards are challenged or forgotten, the bewilderment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: Vice and Virtue: Our Moral Condition | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...time-clock, bribe the refs, and raise a cheer...

Author: By Peifr A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 12/20/1973 | See Source »

...block trek takes him to 1,100 mailboxes. He enjoys the job, and knows many of the residents he serves. "I like to talk to people," he says. "It's nice in the summertime." For lunch, he gets 30 minutes. His normal day is eight hours. As a time-clock employee, he gets overtime for putting in more than 40 hours a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: One Letter Carrier's Life | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...sharply demarcating course examinations encourage intellectual ; the student gets the feeling he has "completed" a field of and can now move on to something else. "If one doesn't have examination the task is never done. . . Examinations seem arduous, but they are actual easy way out--a time-clock.' they tend to prescribe field is like and what the data is. A teacher may tell his students to think and evaluate things for themselves, but the examination system rewards them for figuring what he wants--"teaching is odds with the examination system defeats itself." And by providing an artificial group...

Author: By Clark Woodroe, | Title: Final Exams or Term Papers? | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

...sharply course examinations encourage lasiness; the student gets the that he has "completed" a of study and can now move something else. "If one doesn't exams, one's task is never Examinations , they are actually an way --a time-clock." In addition, tend to prescribe what the field like and what the relevant . A teacher may-tell his students think and evaluate things for themselves, but the examination...

Author: By Clark Woodroe, | Title: Exams, Final Papers--Or Revise The System | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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