Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The most important major theatrical undertaking now going on in this country is the American Shakespeare Festival and Academy at Stratford, Connecticut. At last, Shakespeare is leaving the printed page; the man who bequeathed us the largest canon of great plays is beginning to get the respect and service he...
But Ph.D.s "persist in their perverse modesty and deliberately hide the fact that they are doctors." Even worse, "they help demean their profession further by lending themselves to the widespread practice ... of handing out honorary doctor's degrees . . . like lollipops." Seymour's recommendation: replacing honorary doctorates with O.C.C...
No one knew better than Jack Westrope the dangers of his profession. His older brother was also a jockey, and he was killed in a spill at Tijuana in 1932. Last week Jack went out to ride the King Ranch's Well Away at Hollywood Park with his old...
*Even after final profession of vows, a nun may be released from her vows by a decree of secularization issued by proper authority.
Teachers' colleges are, by and large, farcical diploma mills churning out second-rate instructors on a conveyer belt of picayune courses--motion picture camera projection, physical education, fingerpainting. And because their facade is so widely realized, they attract primarily the aimless high school graduate with no particular talents and less...