Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Broken Agreement. The President's legal evasions dismayed even some of his previous defenders in the law profession. Yale Law School's Charles Black Jr. had stoutly supported Nixon's position that the courts had no right to his confidential conversations or papers. Now Black declared: "I...
Parents who only yesterday were worried about their kids' boredom and indifference are now frantic about their commitment. Alan Weisberg, 21, president of the Jewish Student Union at Brooklyn College, was urged by his parents to stay home. What about school, law boards, the danger? Replied Weisberg: "How can...
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT. A morose lesbian paces her apartment, suffering the inconstancy of her lover. Since she is a fashion designer by profession, there are a number of mannequins in the apartment, and it is the inspiration of Director-Writer R.W. Fassbinder to have his heroine...
Ever since 1878, when one Stella Nutt and her sister Emma invaded what had been an exclusively male profession, the Bell System's telephone operators have been almost all women, while its higher-paid skilled jobs have nearly all been held by men. The situation has long outraged feminists...
"Rummaging into his living," he once said of his profession, "the poet fetches out the images that hurt and connect." Yet he came to regard poetry as a kind of graceful, skillful game (which sometimes required the spectator's use of the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary, not to mention...