Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In Monday's editorial, "Live Modern," your excellent comments on smoking and lung cancer were marred by an ill-considered and overly-broad indictment of the AMA. You said that it seemed unlikely that the AMA would "take time off from its arduous lobbying duties to support a cause which...
Independence of mind and forthright expression marked the course of his life. Born in Shanghai, his father was a geographer, his mother an illiterate peasant (who chose his wife for him when he was eleven). Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy, won a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he...
He was taken prisoner by the English in 1943, then shunted back and forth among the Allies, ending up with the Americans. His profession having been discovered, Fricker was put in charge of the prisoners' mess.
Szigeti's reason for choosing the violin as his vessel is "the irrational pleasure that communication gives: communication that transcends the barriers of language, of nationality, of race." And he feels that other performers are attracted to the arduous profession for the same reason. Szigeti was made conscious of the...
...deal more. She was strongly affected by her stay here, and the crowd in the Kirkland Junior Common Room heard a great actress publicly recant some of the basic values of her life and her profession. In dramatic fashion, her lecture illustrated how fruitful an exchange between academic and professional cultures...