Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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His energy quotient is hardly open to question. The only time the voluble dancer/ choreographer/ designer/ painter/ singer/ actor/ author/ master chef is at a loss for words is when asked to identify his profession. "When people ask me, 'What are you?' " he shrugs, "I have to say...
Died. Larry Parks, 60, journeyman film actor who became a celebrated casualty of McCarthy-era antiCommunism; of a heart attack; in Studio City, Calif. A B-movie player in the early 1940s, Parks' fortunes rose sharply after his brilliant performance as Singer Al Jolson in the 1946 hit The...
SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET, professor of Government and Social Relations, is luckier than most people who work for a living. He evidently likes his job and is convinced of its worth. In his essay on the history of political controversy at Harvard, Lipset writes about his profession and his place of...
Then purposefully ignoring their political causes. Bok attempts to explain these failures as a result--at least in part--of big government arising out of the New Deal, which in turn has created several administrative problems in government. It is not only the general trend in government that necessitates this...
But Bok never makes clear what exactly the "opportunity" is in creating this "new profession"--it would seem that the real opportunity for the University in its present financial state would be to get more government funding. But even assuming that grabbing this "opportunity" is motivated by the disinterested search...