Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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To answer his questions, Wolfe examines the roots of the architectural profession and emerges with a devastating indictment of...well...virtually everyone, from the theory-obsessed architects to their intellectually intimidated clients. Wolfe has shown us our sins and we may now follow him out of the darkness.
Majeski is a good cop, entirely dedicated to what he calls "the profession." That night he believed the man who had murdered Adan had to be caught "before he killed anyone else." The detective ran into a bit of luck when someone pointed out two stylish young women who had...
Sam Cummings is a large, loquacious, twinkly man who is never very far from a joke or an ironic aside. "Human folly," he says, "guarantees the perpetuity of arms trading, the second-oldest profession in the world." Cummings, 54, is intimate with this deadly folly: he is by far the...
La Donna del Lago is Home's seventh Rossini opera. Although she has sung such disparate roles as Carmen and Marie in Berg's Wozzeck, it is with Rossini that she has had her greatest triumphs. In 1964, she first came to attention in the "pants" role of...
- Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm