Word: ethicality
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...Stanford Sexual Rights Forum [March 11] wishes to dispute the "free sex" label TIME attaches to it. We advocate no particular sexual ethic but rather individual decision and individual responsibility. In the spring quarter we will initiate campaigns to make women's social regulations voluntary and to allow undergraduate women to live off-campus. The fastest-selling buttons at Stanford have been "If it moves, fondle it," "Unbutton," and "Make love...
...surrender to the influence of the drug the result will be a "horror show" of threatening hallucinations. The other reservation about pot was that it should not be over-estimated. "You can't do your math or anything practical while you're high because it kills the Protestant Ethic in people. If people could live by fingerpainting we could legalize...
...classics but complemented them. The first playwright to add the magic was John Osborne, the Angry Young Man, an actor out of work and furiously out of patience with life, the theater, everything. The play was Look Back in Anger, an iconoclastic screed against the suffocating middle-class ethic and the coolly cultivated traditionalism of the Establishment. "When I saw Look Back in Anger" said an ex-pastry cook named Arnold Wesker, "I knew it could happen. I went home and wrote my first play in six weeks." The thunder of Osborne summoned not only Wesker (Roots, Chips with Everything...
...obituarists called heartbreak, as his fellow Americans headed into World War I and death in places like Belleau Wood. Trueblood was in the tradition of a thin but spiritually pure stream of philosophical pacifism that has run through Western society since the rise of Christianity, even though the Christian ethic generally holds to the Augustinian belief in the "just" war. But pacifism has usually found its firmest hold only within small sects, ranging from the Anabaptists of the Reformation to the Mennonites (of 389 Americans classified as religious objectors during World War I, 138 were Mennonites) to the Society...
...rich or the church but also of the state. "Paupers are everywhere!" she cried after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness was the real sin-which in the U.S. developed into the Puritan ethic that virtuous people are bound to prosper and the slothful will earn the bitter reward of poverty. Less than a century ago, Henry Ward Beecher thundered: "No man in this land suffers from poverty unless it be more than his fault-unless...