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Whispers with J.F.K. The lighthearted Lisagor is admired as a great generalist in a field where specialists are taking over. As chief of the News's five-member bureau, he practices what he calls "horizontal" journalism - he and his reporters follow their stories wherever they lead rather than sticking to narrow beats, as they might at a large "vertical" bureau...
...While he is a onetime Democrat and distinctly left of the Nixon Administration's center, he prefers to consider himself "result oriented," an empirical, professional problem solver. When he met the press just after his appointment to the Cabinet in December 1968, he said that he was "a generalist," and added that he hoped the President would seek his advice on matters outside the narrow Labor Department bailiwick. Nixon has done just that...
...that kind, I usually check with TIME.' " A flattering story, even if the admiral was in a mood to exaggerate. Yet while the magazine has certainly never claimed to know everything about anything, we do work hard to provide information for the specialist as well as the generalist, to search out the rare nugget of news as well as cover the vital events. In the current issue, for example, TIME'S readers will find that...
...military greatcoat. George Bernard Shaw teased Nancy Astor about her boyish bosom. Such are the recollections in Memories, the just-published autobiography of Biologist-Author Sir Julian Huxley, 76. And how would Sir Julian himself like to be remembered? "Not primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human, and nothing in external nature, was alien...
Their emotional reaction reflected a measure of reality. A second look at specialization has suggested that the generalist is not obsolete after all. Technical knowledge becomes outmoded at a breathtaking rate. It has been estimated that one-half of what an engineer studies in college will be superseded ten years after he graduates. Thus it is more plausible to provide a student with broad concepts into which he can fit the necessary de tails later. Robert Hutchins, for one, has proposed that the college years be devoted exclusively to a liberal education; career skills can be acquired...