Word: ethicality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conceive to be fascist. Once you're committed to violence, you reinforce your own militance by shutting off all other viewpoints. You won't hear other people; you can't hear other people. The ties you establish with fellow revolutionaries bind your mind to the ethic of violence. By the time fall rolled around, I was ready to take violent action...
Remaining activism generally takes the form of community work or attempts to build various kinds of communes. The change is illustrated by the popularity of Charles Reich's The Greening of America (TIME, Nov. 2), which envisions a peaceful takeover by the hippie ethic, a kind of revolution by spiritual osmosis. Says Frank Rich, 21, chairman of the Harvard Crimson: "Students are still concerned about the war, racism and poverty; some are very active with ecology groups. But most are just waiting, with their pot and their Dylan records, for the grass to grow through the concrete. Last year...
...into Reich for missing the main point. Writing on the opposite-editorial page of the New York Times last week, Marcuse attacked Reich's view that a more humane America will be born as the nation is inherited by young subscribers to the anticapitalist hippie ethic of "Consciousness III" (TIME...
...plays, no one could guess it. Beckett is in a paralyzed eye-socket-to-eye-socket confrontation with a cosmos vacated by God. He refuses to move beyond his grief. Bond says, in effect: "O.K., God is dead, but we've got to work out an ethic whereby we can survive on this planet with some degree of decency." Unlike Pinter, who seems to accept violence as a norm, Bond indicts the value vacuum and brutal boredom in which men can bring themselves to kill a baby as if it were the only chance to experience the thrill...
Haggard's Mama's Hungry Eyes and Okie from Muskogee locate themselves in the center of this ethic, songs he sings without a breath of irony or wavering self-consciousness. His bearing, mannerisms, even Haggard's cocky smile reflect the poor southern white's defiant pride. Constantly faced with social and historical pressures that threaten his social position, the country music has been able to confer on its audience a heroic dimension missing in their lives and politics...