Word: generalists
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...result of the reappraisal at both schools is a growing emphasis on the humanities, to produce what M.I.T.'s Johnson calls "the true generalist capable of dealing with the great problems cutting across every area of our lives" and also what Caltech's DuBridge terms "literary people with a scientific point of view." Caltech offered a humanities major for the first time last year, already has more students majoring in humanities than in either geology or chemical engineering. M.I.T. now offers a humanities major, has three poets, two novelists, two composers and one expert in Old Testament history...
...Perfectly Informed." Last week, with typical lack of fanfare, Oppenheimer, who is 62 and ailing, retired after 19 years as the Institute's director, although he will stay on in the physics chair once occupied by Einstein. His successor is Harvard Economist Carl Kaysen, 46, an energetic generalist who has been a weapons consultant to the Pentagon, an antitrust scholar, a foreign affairs adviser to President Kennedy. A rare breed for the Institute, he is not a noted specialist in anything, but his Harvard colleague, J. Kenneth Galbraith, calls him "the most perfectly informed man I have ever known...
...attract more students to family doctoring, the American College of General Practice hopes to restore the dignity of the general practitioner by making him a kind of specialist himself-a "generalist" is one term proposed. To gain accreditation from the college, a "generalist" would be required to take residency-internship training in family practice for three years, encouraged to work with outside doctors in family practice, and get added training in sociology and psychology. "Family doctoring is a more complex field than anyone gives it credit for, since it encompasses a whole range of intellectual, medical and nonmedical problems," insists...
When I joined the Peace Corps, I was classified as a "generalist." As a man who could do absolutely nothing of a practical nature, I was slightly amazed when I met my fellow trainees for the Peace Corps "R.C.A." program in Sierra Leone thought that I would be working with computers or television sets before I learned the initials meant ("rural community action")--Carpenters, masons, geologists, an people you read about in books, unreal people, people who can (shudder) do things...
...number of projects I have going is ridiculous, and I would have to be a Renaissance Man to handle them all. But I have bluffed my way; and my ingenious worddropping scheme has convinced at least some people that I am possessed of virtue, that I am a true "generalist" (that is to say, generally good in everything). And just as my shoelaces got tied, my projects, somehow, will be completed...