Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doctors are butchers. Hospitals are abattoirs. Patients are lucky to get away with their lives, never mind their good health. These are more or less the notions behind these two films, both of which purport to be comedies. The medical profession is eminently ripe for a good dissection, but the...
THE DICK GIBSON SHOW, by Stanley Elkin. An aging radio announcer turns his life and profession into a sensitive but comic American myth.
Adds Michigan Supreme Court Justice Thomas E. Brennan: "Our technology is already in the 21st century. It is time for the legal profession to embark on a bold new adventure."
Teilhard de Chardin was a French Jesuit and paleontologist by profession, co-discoverer of the "Peking Man." He wrote extensively throughout his life and his theology is based on a vision of the cosmic evolution of man proceeding from the alpha point--base matter--to the omega point--the union...
...journalism can't take criticism, we might as well close shop." Assistant Managing Editor Ben Bagdikian of the Washington Post, whose critique of the paper in the Columbia Journalism Review eventually led the Post to hire him, feels the review concept has "made it possible for professionals to talk about the press in a critical way without pussyfooting. These reviews have taken a look at sacred cows-sacred cows were all over the newsroom leaving what cows usually do-and have challenged the conventional wisdom of news selection." As the new reviews gain in stature and maturity, Bagdikian feels...