Word: ethicality
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...Pope. For one thing they assume that "drug use is such a formidable and frightening thing that no one would try it unless he needed it badly," whereas in fact "the vast majority of users (the potential user) he sees will be enjoying themselves." Pope also sees "the work ethic" behind adults' failure to realize what is going on: "Why should someone deliberately go out and do something with his time which he knows is neither useful nor contributing to his future if not to satisfy a need...
...emphasis on the work ethic points up one of the key realities of life in the land of Mao. Despite the social upheaval created by the revolution, there still is much of the old Middle Kingdom in China today. Although Mandarin is established as the official language, the nation's 50 major dialects and more than 1,000 variants persist in daily use. The Chinese have lost nothing in their devotion to the pleasure of the table; most foreign visitors return home several pounds heavier, spouting memories of exquisite meals. Women have been officially liberated, and are equal before...
...area, about 65 miles north of Milwaukee. But there was an immediate protest that the ad was actually a volley of crew-cut propaganda. It did seem to play on any good burgher's fear of the standard counterculture sins: drugs and VD, the death of the work ethic, draft dodging, and maybe some glint of Charles Manson...
...true value system of this University is that of Henry Kissinger, Samuel Huntington, John Dunlop, B.F. Skinner, and the other theorists of social manipulation who lurk around William James and Littauer. In the traditional sense, they are not values at all. For what binds these men together is an ethic of brute competence--a belief that they are members of an intellectual elite which is more clearly fitted to make the crucial decisions in American life than any other individual or group in the country. It is this, an absolute confidence in the intellectual and moral fitness...
Once upon a time, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants-Puritans and the children of Puritans-clamped a code on America as tight as the pillory. Ramrod stiff with duty, tense with work ethic, the code operated splendidly on the frontier, and more or less adequately until after World War II. But then WASP "defaulted on their birthright of cussedness and irreverence" and turned into what Schrag calls the "plastic WASP." Still claiming to be the model-the only model-for a Good American, the plastic WASP has ended up a crabby tyrant of pallid respectability...