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...addition, Naisbitt said, the job market will place less value on the specialist and more on the "generalist who can adapt...
...probably more difficult to be a snob now than it once was. The logistical base is gone. If Buckley were one, he would have to be considered one of the last of the great Renaissance snobs, a generalist capable of insufferable expertise on everything from Spanish wines to spinnakers. But the making of such a handsomely knowledgeable, or even pseudo-knowledgeable, character requires family money and leisure of a kind not often available in the late 20th century. "A child's education," Oliver Wendell Holmes once remarked, "should begin at least one hundred years before he was born...
This is an approach that appears to attach more importance to the process of learning than to the substance of what is learned but it does provide a way of coping with the vast increase of knowledge. "The old notion of the generalist who could comprehend all subjects is an impossibility, and it was even in past ages," says Chicago's Gray. "Renaissance humanism concentrated on social living and aesthetic engagement but left out most of science. To know all about today's physics, biology and mathematics, or even the general principles of all these fields would...
Analyzing the complex ups and downs of the U.S. economy can be tricky business, requiring an expert's eye for detail and a generalist's feel for broad trends. Senior Editor George Taber, who has headed TIME'S Economy & Business section since last fall, draws weekly on a variety of resources to assist him in this difficult task, not the least of which is his own experience in the field. A former American press spokesman for the Commission of the European Community in Brussels, Taber frequently covered business news as a TIME correspondent in Paris and went...
...Kennedy Senate staff. By 1960 he and Theodore Sorenson were Kennedy's two chief speechwriters--indispensable to the campaign and to the formation of Kennedy's foreign and domestic policies. He was, in the words of Kennedy biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., "the archetypal New Frontiersman," a quick-witted generalist "able to take on any subject, however new and complicated, master its essentials with rapidity and precision and arrive at ideas for action...