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In a system in which few had money and there was little to buy, one's self-importance was based primarily on one's profession. Without work, the Soviet immigrants eventually lose hope after their first year or two in Israel. From discussions with them, it is clear that many...
The list goes on. Women poured into the legal profession only to find that Dan Quayle, Esq., had got there ahead of them, and was campaigning for Malthusian measures to shrink the profession. Or they elbowed their way into male-only clubs -- where they found the huge leather armchairs empty...
Most journalistic careers are counted out in words. Yet mere words do not begin to measure Bill Smith's contribution to TIME in his 3 1/2 decades at the magazine. He wrote thousands of articles, including more than 50 cover stories, on subjects ranging from British elections to Middle East...
With a well-chosen mix of film clips and interviews, the program takes us back to the ancient 1950s, when virtually the only blacks on TV were comic stereotypes: Amos 'n' Andy, Beulah and the occasional bumbling menial. "There's no room for prejudice in our profession," Milton Berle tells...
But Stone cautions that swelling ranks are notthe fault of the law profession. "it is the faultof how society values certain things."