Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Written in 1890, that prophecy of Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis (later a Supreme Court Justice) signaled a new doctrine in U.S. law. Significantly, it was argued not in court but in the Harvard Law Review, then three years old and the pioneer of a new kind of...
After two weeks of a medical strike that involved 85% of Belgium's 12,000 physicians and dentists, the nation showed no serious ill effects. Hundreds of doctors remained defiantly self-exiled in Luxembourg, France and The Neth erlands, protesting the government's fee-fixing medical insurance plan...
"Portrait painting is a pimp's profession," John Singer Sargent once proclaimed. "Mugs" was what he called his 500-odd sitters, mostly proper Bostonians, British nobles and French socialites, and he sometimes contemptuously held their attention by coloring his nose red or pretending to eat his cigar. "No more...
Scornful as he was of this work, Sargent's portraits almost never flattered, almost always illuminated personality to the surprised satisfaction of the sitter-although in the case of the famed Madame X, Sargent was so daringly personal in depicting her titian tresses and her fetish for lavendar face...
...Magazine, which contains news of interest to members of the funeral profession and technical articles for embalmers. A regular feature of each issue is the column "This I Remember" by Jerome Burke. Each month Mr. Burke reminisces about persons who, through one misfortune or another have come under his professional cure. In the February, 1964, DE-CE-CO Magazine, Mr. Burke's memories concerned the sad demise of a Harvard man and a Radcliffe girl; the column is reprinted here with the kind permission of the Dodge Chemical Company. The cartoons accompanying the text were drawn by Henry Schwartz...