Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soon afterward, he turned his love affair with the English language into a profession. They have been an item for 47 years, spanning forays into sexual innuendo (Shakespeare's Bawdy), A Dictionary of Cliches, and Partridge's most famous work, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Until...
Alexandra says she sees two types of people in the theater world, both professional and at Harvard. One group is made up of the people who are "really in it for show biz," she says--"all glitter, very interested in themselves, superficial." The second group--the people she'd like to emulate--see performing as a profession, and remain themselves off stage. Joanne Woodward has impressed her as such an actress, she says; an earthiness combined with depth and intelligence. "Those are the people I admire." She sounds a bit annoyed when she describes the same split in Harvard...
But he ran up against the race barrier in the legal profession, and he took up acting in all-black shows in Harlem. There he caught the eye of a Broadway producer who hired him to star in a British production of "Showboat." From the early 1930s until the outbreak...
He is I. F. Stone. Grabbing his first reporting job at age 14, Stone devoted a lifetime to the profession, working at one time or another for The New York Post, the New York Star, the New York Daily Compass, the Philadelphia Record and the Philadelphia Inquirer. But Stone's...
Although Harvard professors are among the most highly paid in the profession, women here receive only 88 per cent of the salary of their male counterparts, a survey on faculty compensation by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has revealed.