Word: professional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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> Graduate students, who must "take a large number of formal courses, not only in such technical subjects as bibliography and textual criticism, but also in the authors and periods of their specialization. The dangers of premature specialization, resulting from the compulsory Ph.D. for everyone going into the academic profession, are...
John Singer Sargent, standing at the easel in his studio on London's Tite Street, used to mutter, "Gainsborough would have done it!" But in his heart he knew he was no Gainsborough. What Sargent had in abundance was a capacity for flattering his sitters in paint, and naturally...
Mary Cassatt's closest male friend was also her master, Edgar Degas. If she never equaled that dour misogynist as an artist, she came close enough to earn a place as the best woman painter America has produced. A rich, aristocratic Pennsylvanian, she spent almost all her adult life...
"We must quit bemoaning the prospect, discouraging the young men into indifference and indecision, and frightening them into ill-considered or hasty decisions about college, the choice of a profession, or anything else in their future."
...James's, Davis was being talked about as presidential material. A supporter urged him to drop J. P. Morgan as a client so that he would be more palatable to the Bryan Democrats, to whom Wall Street was a dirty word. Davis refused: "Any lawyer who [trims] his professional course to fit the gusts of popular opinion . . . degrades the great profession...