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...Vietnam he confronts his real test of manhood. He can play Russian Roulette in the Heart of Darkness, and win, because he is disciplined. He always understood life in terms of will and courage and manliness, and now he saves himself and his friends. He forces his superior ethic on his companions, inspiring them to develop the grit and sacrifice necessary to survive. The way director Michael Cimino sets things up, it's understood that they will win DeNiro always is a winner, and here with his boy's-book sensibility and see-to-shining-sea masculinity among the racially...
...distorted because many of those on the dole actually hold down jobs in the clandestine "black economy." Nor are politicians unduly concerned about the 1 million youths without jobs. In Italy being jobless does not carry the same stigma as in Northern European countries steeped in the Protestant ethic. "Let's put it this way," Sociologist Ferrarotti explains. "An unemployed youth in this country is considered to be just waiting for his right chance. He is in parchéggio (in a parking lot). He is not on trial and alone, as he would...
...hospital lobby with a bullet in his chest. Taking a holiday comes as naturally to him as falling on a horse, because he is not merely a member of the leisure class, he is its most prominent spokesman, an embodiment in the public mind of the new American work ethic: work some, play some...
...upbeat Yankelovich predicts a new "ethic of commitment...
Yankelovich argues that a new "ethic of commitment" is dawning, in which self-denial and self-fulfillment will be synthesized into a "search for community." Unfortunately, the evidence supporting this rosy vision is fairly flimsy. Even he seems unconvinced: he anticipates an era of conflict as people try to hold on to both their new freedoms and their high standard of living...