Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Speech of Money. Why did the slave-ship captains of Newport-so scrupulous that they took oaths not to gamble, drink or swear-have no scruples at all about their terrible profession? How could the almost offensively respectable Englishman. John Newton, who eventually switched from slave captain to clergyman...
Not so. The conductor's profession today bears as little resemblance to what it was 50 years ago as does the life of an astronaut to a World War I pilot's. Even within the present generation, the changes in the music world would dumfound a Toscanini. Orchestras...
Within less than a decade of finishing his conservatory training, Mehta has pushed so far toward the top of his profession that Philadelphia's Ormandy can say: "In spite of his youth, he has very much arrived. I consider him the finest of the young conductors." That Mehta has...
Dr. Alexander Nadas, clinical professor of pediatrics and chief of cardiology at Children's Hospital, said the operations "raise immensely difficult ethical problems. The medical profession," he added, "may be stumbling into them without considering all the implications."
As Gilmore noted in accepting the Coif Award, "the distinguishing mark of our profession is its essential loneliness. We are like spies in an alien land, cut off from any contact with headquarters, with no way of ever finding out whether the intelligence which we diligently collect and relay is...