Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A Reformed Modernist. Part of his persona was his view of modern art. He regarded it with the contempt that an old blues pianist, after 30 years' rattling the ivories in a Kansas whorehouse, might reserve for ten minutes of John Cage silence. No guts, no drawing, no life...
Other investigations, meanwhile, were confirming a familiar story: society, families and the medical profession have not really met their obligations to the elderly. Many nursing homes are overcrowded and understaffed and offer little medical attention to their patients; substandard conditions and financial skulduggery are common throughout the industry. In Illinois...
Happily, such pictures are beginning to find less favor with readers-and with cartoonists. Says Bill Mauldin, at 53 a. 35-year veteran of the editorial page: "Cartoons are getting better, more and more away from labels. Readers are more savvy. It is less and less necessary to put names...
He was the author of one witty novel (The Rock Pool) and a rather indescribable, rather marvelous volume of quotations, moody autobiography and black-Irish philosophy he called The Unquiet Grave. But by temperament and profession he was above all that obsolescent specimen, The Bookman. The bulk of his writing...
Notebook Research. DeNiro is not a Hollywood but a New York actor, a term loosely used to describe a certain style and attitude, with implications of seriousness, stage-oriented technique and lengthy, underpaid apprenticeship. DeNiro has been plugging away at his profession for 14 years, through workshop productions, off-off...