Word: ethicality
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Laketown games themselves are only minor parts of Team. More important is the "family" theme--the development of a group stake and an individual ethic of sacrifice. The prototypes that emerge on any team are there: the inspirational coach, the free spirits, the unskilled in ill-fitting uniforms and the infuriating naturals who merely don pads and look fast and mean. The varieties are universal. When the security of close-knit belonging ends so abruptly in November, the finality is like that of a best friend's death...
...work ethic is still very strong in Maine," Cohen says later, "and these people see a very visible, though not necessarily large, percentage of cheaters. For the working man who goes to work eight to ten hours a day and is still barely able to make ends meet, it's very frustrating...
...originally meant 'prostitute' -- it was a woman's wheedling way of getting what she wanted. Fifteen years ago, you might have described Riggs as a sissy, and a slippery one at that. But now he's made it a life style, and elevated it to a full blown ethic. He has devoted himself to an anti-male role, to avoiding all the resonsibilities entailed in being the traditionally admired straight and strong-armed male...
...Riesman's view, the erosion of the old standards has not been accompanied by the growth of new loyalties. "No new ethic, academic or intellectual, has taken the place of the older relative consensus about values...
...time," the unaffiliated rad said loftily, suggesting by his intonation that anyone who did so had absorbed the work ethic of monopoly capital as to be worthless for whatever revolutionary purpose he professed to serve. "I do it by length. Thirty-three and a half pages a night. I count pictures as half a page." One-upsmanship goes on at Harvard, too, and this conversation would not have been impossible at a Harvard demonstration. But it might have been less likely, just as there were probably fewer people at Harvard than in many other places who denounced demonstrators for their...