Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After eight years, my wife has just retired from her profession in order to raise a family. Before TIME arrived, we thought of ourselves as a more or less average middle-income family. How future shocking it was to learn that we had given up our membership in the new...
By now Charles has headed off for Atlantic City, where he will harness his zeal by acting as associate producer of the Miss America Pageant. An interior designer by profession, he is one of 250,000 people who work hard for the system each year without pay. "Just say the...
"My colleagues will hate me for saying it," says Hungarian-born Dancer Ivan Nagy, 35, "but the ballet is the original women's liberation profession. It is created for females." The impeccable partner to such ballerinas as Dame Margot Fonteyn and Natalia Makarova, Nagy is now planning to retire...
"When I announce my profession at a cocktail party, I can almost hear the yawns. When I say that I study black holes, everyone instantly perks up."
Philosophy, William Barrett once confessed, is "a very dubious profession" in America. But in his new book, The Illusion of Technique, Barrett vigorously rehabilitates the profession. For better or worse, he writes, philosophers have made the modern world: "If there had not been those early Greek thinkers who created philosophy...