Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true spur to efficiency is not fear?either of unemployment or a customer's wrath; it is rather a positive ideal. And that ideal is failing in the affluent urban society of the present time. "People are no longer turned on by the Protestant Ethic," says Abraham Zaleznik, a professor at the Harvard Business School. To some, the Protestant Ethic?hard work is a virtue for its own sake?appears to have been replaced by an almost Mediterranean spirit, a spreading belief that men should work no more than they must to enjoy the good life and worldly pleasures. "There...
...vehemence of the American Jewish community's support for Israel creates an impression in the minds of some that Washington is acting not on the basis of national interest but out of fear of Jewish wrath. When public officials of national stature, such as John Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller, abdicate their ceremonial responsibilities toward a foreign leader, it is a sign that pressure-bloc politics is taking precedence over common sense and public duty...
...first non-Southern school districts to be sued by the Justice Department for deliberately perpetuating de facto segregation?school imbalances resulting from residential racial patterns. Federal Judge Manuel Real found that Pasadena had failed to carry out integration plans and must act to eliminate segregation. School officials risked community wrath by deciding not to appeal the decision. But School Superintendent Ralph Hornbeck is understandably irritated. "It seems impossible to meet the court's criteria without compulsory busing," he explains. "Now all at once we have the President, the Congress and the chief attorney for the Justice Department saying they...
...president not raised in New England, Pusey remained aloof from much of the faculty, and believed that his job allowed him little time to get to know his students. With his strong sense of personal morality, Pusey stoutly defended the rights-and jobs-of Harvard professors who drew the wrath of his onetime Appleton neighbor, Joe McCarthy. But in a different situation, his steadfast independence and his instinct to protect Harvard proved costly. Faced last spring with the S.D.S. occupation of University Hall, Pusey refused to negotiate and angered a large part of the Harvard community when he summoned police...
...westerns (Jesse James), biographies (The Story of Alexander Graham Bell), even comedies (The Mad Miss Manton). But it is not until 1940 that the man and his role fuse into the permanence of art. More than 20 years later, John Steinbeck unreels a print of The Grapes of Wrath...