Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Traditionally, legal bellies have been kept far from any such teeth. As recently as 1970, an A.B.A. committee, chaired by retired Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, examined the profession's system of ethics enforcement and found "a scandalous situation." It reported that "lawyers convicted of federal income tax violations...
There seems now to be a widespread acknowledgment that the bar cannot afford to back away from its new concerns. As one state bar ethics committee observed in an annual report, the profession "has a headache that cries out for fast relief. We will compound our own cure or someone...
If man ever succeeds in reaching this goal, most neuroscientists today agree that much of the credit will belong to the author of that statement, Dr. Francis Otto Schmitt, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Although he is a skilled researcher in molecular biology, Schmitt is best known...
A bulky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) man with a prognathous jaw and bold forehead, Schmitt is an exceptionally articulate spokesman for his profession, promoting it in informal conversations and speeches that are remarkably free from technical jargon. "I believe the brain is knowable," he says. He is also an enthusiastic...
Moyers basically does three types of shows. First, he investigates worthwhile attempts by citizens' groups to brighten the corners where they live. In November he looked at the Oregon movement to discourage economic and population growth in order to protect the state's agreeable style of life. Last...