Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Notes the ART's casting coordinator Sandra L. Matteson: "In any other profession the harder you work the more you gain; that doesn't hold in acting."
"It's a pretty grim profession," says Jonathan E. Marks, who teaches courses on drama at Harvard and is the literary director of the American Repertory Theatre. "Talent itself is sufficient only in the case of the most extraordinary talent." While Marks will not individually assess this year's senior...
What all of these seniors have in common is that they are willing to face this uncertain profession. they have a high tolerance for ambiguity. Few other Harvard seniors are willing to leap into the world with so few safety nets. Many may not know what they are doing after...
Traditionally, ethics has been a decentralized issue at Harvard, with each of the professional schools and the College teaching ethics in accordance with standards of the profession and the whims of their respective administrations. For instance, the Law School has had a structured ethics component in its curriculum for years, mostly because of the complicated set of questions which arise from the practice of law and its application...
...central problem, as the committee defined it, was to train professionals with a background in both the culture of their respective professions and in the basics of ethical theory. "The committee concluded unanimously that there were very few people who were both well educated in the history and philosophy of ethics and who had also absorbed the culture of a profession, and we tried to address that problem," Rupp says. "We wanted to prepare people best suited to do either...