Word: academicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking with the deliberateness of an academician but the incisiveness of a lawyer, Munoz yesterday explained to those assembled in his top-floor suite at the Statler-Hilton that he considered himself a Federalist, but of a new kind. Puerto Rico is allied with the United States in the framework of a larger and looser federal structure than the one originally conceived of in the Union, he feels. "We have initiated a contribution of a new and different kind in the American constitutional system. It is the first new development since the thirteen original states. We want...
...Academician V. A. Fock, of the University of Leningrad, one of the five Russian scholars visiting the University, will speak today on Some Questions in the Physical Interpretation of Quantum Machanics in Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Large Lecture Hall...
...Academician V. D. Feck, and Professors G. V. Stepanov, B. P. Tokin, and G. V. Efinov compose the remainder of the delegation. L. P. Stupin will possibly accompany them as an interpreter...
...universities in the United States today, the evaluation of performance is based almost exclusively on publication." Result: a neglect of what teachers are hired for-teaching-and "a great deal of foolish and unnecessary research . . . undertaken by men who bring to their investigations neither talent nor interest." The ambitious academician's sole aim is to accumulate published titles, as a young actor squirrels away television credits. Title-squirreling pays off: "Success is likely to come to the man who has learned to neglect his assigned duties" in favor of his "private professional interests...
...writes well; this is a rare quality in a book of detailed criticism, and I hope it sets an example that will be widely followed. Second, he is occasionally willing to summarize; this is an even rare and more useful quality, since it requires more courage than the average academician can muster...