Word: ethicality
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...bill, the court was persuaded that legislators of the time were well aware of the law's broad implications. Still, said Justice John Harlan in dissent, 100 years ago few legislators really contemplated as much reach as the court has found in the act: "The individualistic ethic of their time emphasized personal freedom and embodied a distaste for governmental interference. It seems to me that most of these men would have regarded it as a great intrusion on individual liberty for the government to take from a man the power to refuse for personal reasons to enter into...
...Andover as once being, "jocks, jet-set (very preppy socialites), and non-entities." Now, he says, there is a third and dominant group which could be classified the "hip people." But drugs are not the trademark of the hip people, he explained. The hip people share "the love ethic...
...love ethic" is as good a phrase as any for the air of optimism and ease that has appeared on the Andover campus in this spring. Those who use drugs do so in their rooms. The administration will kick them out if they're caught. But the school isn't trying to catch them as they are at Exeter...
Creating the Sums. Harrington argues that the distressing future the figures portend can be forestalled only by a radical transformation in both economics and politics. The profit motive must give up its place as the primary mainspring in American life, yielding to "a cooperative, rather than a competitive, ethic." To solve the nation's problems, money must be allocated "uneconomically," in the historical sense of the word, and "wasted" on such uncommercial values as "racial and class integration, beauty and privacy...
Harrington's plea for a cooperative ethic comes, curiously, at a time when the enforced cooperative societies around the world-the Communist countries-are rediscovering the necessity of the profit motive as a solution to their own internal problems. More important, he fails to suggest what force could replace the profit motive and still produce the vast sums the U.S. needs to solve its problems...