Word: ethicality
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Most theme parks are a mirror image of the puritan work ethic. The idea here is to play, hustle and use the last cent's worth of the $30 plus it may take a family of four to get in. At most parks (major exceptions: Disneyland and Disney World), there is a flat admission fee that enables parents and offspring to sample and resample every major attraction without charge. Remembering the rapacious playlands of the past, where gambling, boozing and whoring were as rife as popcorn and pizza, most theme parks promote soft drinks and fast foods. They dispense...
...blue-collar hostility to aerobic exercises probably relates to the exerciser's perverse dissipation of energy. Conservation has always been the ethic of the lower middle class, and it is silly to watch the fitness-conscious executive...
...member of Dukakis' own welfare advisory council derides it as "a foolhardy adventure, conceived in haste, doomed to failure and meant to punish the poor." But workfare seems assured of political popularity in a state that still prides itself on its Puritan work ethic...
...included two millionaires, and Demarest grew up in England, attending private schools with "the peerage and the beerage." Demarest notes a difference between European and American rich: "Many Americans don't know how to spend their money. Perhaps it is in part a result of the Puritan work ethic...
...exultant ones in the U.S. today are those who through talent, luck, prescience and drive have amassed fortunes in the past few years, or are about to. They are an uncommonly interesting lot, whose lives and habits illuminate what achievement means today in the society that invented the success ethic. Regardless of the route, those who are making it to the top seem to share a number of personality traits. As a group, the hot new rich work extraordinarily hard. They are more willing to take risks than the average citizen. Many are loners. And, notes Journalist Arthur Louis...