Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To combat inflation, Jimmy Carter has proposed a relatively lean fiscal 1980 budget of $531.6 billion with a deficit of $29 billion. Congress may want to reduce it even more. At his first meeting with legislative leaders on the second day of the session, Carter was pleased to learn from...
In classic Agatha Christie fashion, nearly everybody in Elaine's had motives to blue-pencil Foster: unforgotten literary feuds, unhealed editorial schisms, unfavorable reviews, stolen story ideas, purloined wives. It also turns out that Foster's murder-as puzzled out by a hero who blends the best characteristics...
...IMPOSSIBLE TO believe that a man who agonized for so many years over the state of our professional theater, who took an incredible risk in abandoning his position at the top of the critical profession to do something about saving that theater, who supervised and participated in the construction of a graduate curriculum in drama that will continue to affect schools and theaters throughout this country, who displays in his writing a passionate and unstinting dedication to the improvement of our culture--that such a man would waste as many as ten years of his life at Harvard ignoring...
...demand for foreknowledge of practically everything supports a professional industry whose size is barely hinted at by the hovering legions of astrologers, fortune tellers, palmists, mystics, clairvoyants, tarot cardists and stock-market analysts. In fact, the craze for foretelling (and being foretold) runs so deep that it has incurably infected the one profession whose redeeming mission is actually to discover what happened yesterday: journalism. Even though this obligation regularly taxes its competence, journalism today spends a surprising amount of its energy transmitting what it cannot possibly know for sure. Not only tabloids like the National Enquirer but sober organs like...
Before he was an architect, Johnson became the director of the architecture department of Manhattan's fledgling Museum of Modern Art. In 1936 he scandalized his colleagues by resigning from his post and, imbued with fervor for Nazi Germany, trying to start a splinter fascist party in America. This...