Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willie made out all right. In The Saracen's Head, London Daily Express Cartoonist Osbert Lancaster thrusts greatness upon his unwilling hero in a bland satire that good-naturedly kids the iron pants off the whole profession of medieval arms. Written as a juvenile, it is the kind of...
Clouds of Faith. In 1850, all England wept over In Memoriam, Emily Sellwood consented, after twelve years, to marry him, and Queen Victoria made him Laureate. Thereafter until his death in 1892, Alfred Tennyson gave the profession of poetry a public dignity that it has never had since.
Then Mrs. Negishi was heard from. He had left her and the kids behind in sweltering Tokyo and she, too, wanted a vacation in verdant Chiba. Wearily, Negishi returned to Tokyo to see what he could do about his wife's wish. With him was a 17-year-old...
"If this discussion were merely academic," he concludes, "I might well keep out of it, as others in similar positions have done." But the scientist in Haldane had, at least temporarily, vanquished the straight party-liner, even though his stand might well get him tabbed as a deviationist. "I believe...
Only five delegates (with the backing of Prof. Herbert H. Phillips, recently fired from, the University of Washington as a party member) thought that Communists had any place in teaching. The other 2,882 delegates thought otherwise, and so the N.E.A. voted to bar Communists from both the profession and...