Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Illía was already talking as if he were the next President of Argentina. "Our aims are clear," he says, "and we will move toward them in orderly, methodical fashion-patiently but with perseverance. We will not employ spectacular methods, which in principle I abhor." During the campaign he...
The question is no longer how good she is, but how great she is. For ten years her stature as an actress has been rising, quite without flash or spectacle, but with a steadiness that has brought her by now to the highest level of her profession. The most recent...
Living or Dead? It is hard to imagine the top people of any other profession being so profoundly and articulately dissatisfied with their own work. Poet Marianne Moore laments that she "never knew anyone who had a passion for words who had as much difficulty in saying things as I...
Into this quiet town comes an unkempt young man, an Obscure Poet by profession, who announces he is responsible for several mishaps that have lately disturbed the town--an unwanted pregnancy, a burned barn, the disappearance of some wine and three chickens. He also admits to several heretofore unpublicized attacks...
Today it would be ridiculous to propose that only the history of science belong in the university. Science is learned not only through reading of past experiments, but by conducting laboratory work as well. It is usually the case that a man actively at work in scientific research is a...