After he left or was kicked out of the Coney Island Polar Bears in the early '90s, he formed the Ice Breakers, a group of about 25 mostly older members who abide by Mr. Novitsky's strict lifestyle ethos.
Pollak's unlikely role as the political voice of the Hasidic community pushes back against Quebec's strict secular ethos.
This was long before the claims emerged about the so-called Trojan Horse plot, in which hard-line Muslims are alleged to have infiltrated school governing bodies with the intention of altering schools to follow a stricter religious ethos.
Another is the more fundamental divide, roughly north and south, between the more competitive export countries like Germany and France and the uncompetitive, deficit countries that have adopted the high wages and generous social protections of the north without the same economic ethos of strict work habits, innovation, more flexible labor markets and high productivity.
Each college has a distinct feel, from the historic quad of the Annapolis St . Johns to the quirky coziness of Shimer to the ethos of strict discipline at Thomas Aquinas, where Mass is offered in Latin and visiting a dormitory for the opposite sex is grounds for expulsion.
The ethos of a strict separation between clinical and 'non-clinical' aspects of care is endorsed by the re-definition of the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office's (HAPCO) responsibilities.
How they fit into the strict parameters of the Popovic club ethos remains to be seen, and will be a factor in their success or failure.
(It certainly isn't the decor: with the exception of stylish spots like Orso, Chez Josephine or 44 at 10th, most Broadway establishments espouse a strict brick-wall, show-poster, sick-plant ethos).
To increase the support, and the pressure, there are strict deadlines, determined caseworkers and a bottom-line ethos.
By conventional Western standards, the Rastafarian movement can seem both uncompromising (it espouses fairly conservative views on gender and requires a strict, all-natural diet) and appealingly lax (it has a communal ethos, which often involves liberal ritual use of marijuana).
