Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ruth Earnshaw, Philadelphia-born wife of Professor Lo Chuan-fang: "Out here we sometimes indulge in the notion that we college teachers are the forgotten men and women of the war. Those of us who feel that the reasons for which we entered the profession are still valid are deter...
His parents were a long time forgiving Francis and his older brother, Ralph, now a Hollywood heavy, for becoming actors. Mrs. Wuppermann thought the profession somewhat loose. Her husband was inclined to blame one of his ancestors, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, for the misstep.
They belong by family and tradition in the rolling Delaware Valley country, and as poultrymen, dairymen, sheepmen and general farmers they are pursuing the only profession they know.
...quartets and symphonies for him. Quartet playing has been one of the chief private pleasures of almost every accomplished string player who ever lived-and the public profession of scores of them. Many wealthy European amateurs have spent their space time playing second fiddle in a quartet with three professionals, supported for the purpose...
...Coppet's Flonzaley Quartet was, in a sense, the first strictly professional chamber music team, wholly concentrated on the intricate music that the greatest composers in history had written for just four strands of tone. Today quartet playing has become so distinct a profession that no one but a specialist with years of experience would think of competing for big-league honors. Few quartet players ever even attempt to excel as soloists, and very few of the world's top-rank soloists make good quartet players...