When he died, from cancer, in 1978, at 35, he seemed to have taken with him much of that messianic, carefree ethos that arose when New York was a crumbling capital with mean streets, cheap rents and bad air, and when art wasn't worth much either, so nothing was impossible.
That clash, said Dr. Gerald Holton, a professor of physics and history of science at Harvard University, arises from an inherent contradiction between the ethos of science and what he called the obligation and absolute need for the preservation of national security.
The question now arises of how to provide opportunities for academically motivated people to work in the UXC contexts, different from the traditional basic research environments and how to do this without sacrificing what is best in the academic ethos and value system.
New conflicts might arise, when this ethos meets and challenges old authoritative work ethics and management styles.
That legal ambiguity mirrors other regulatory debates that have arisen in the world of startups operating on the ethos that it is better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Early in his tenure, a debate on divorce arose, and Yeats viewed the issue as primarily a confrontation between the emerging Roman Catholic ethos and the Protestant minority.
Pertaining to clothes, Ed Sanders, erstwhile Fug described the ethos: "Punks reminded me of armadillos: people whose attire was a kind of armor to protect themselves from the tentacles arising to get them from the iridium".
Issues arise when parents focus solely on the academic section of the tables and don't consider whether the school ethos is right for their particular child.
Similar conflicts have arisen throughout Russia as the Orthodox Church clambers to regain land and property lost to the Soviet government before they can be grabbed by adherents of the new capitalist ethos.
