Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite his use of the art-crit lingo that is a hazard of the profession, the Andover-Princeton educated Stella does a fine job of explaining how Caravaggio's painting surpassed the tradition of trompe l'oeil--literally "fool the eye," meaning those paintings designed to be mistaken for real...
Journalist Phillip Knightley prefers his legends lightly tarnished. An earlier book, The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, removed the romantic luster from combat journalism. The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century is a pickling look...
Most satisfying, the new mystery is often about some specific time or place or profession, whether it is Loren D. Estleman's seedy Detroit or William Marshall's nightmare vision of Hong Kong, Tony Hillerman's half-mystical, half-modern Navajo reservation or Jonathan Gash's crooked fringe of the...
Minority law professors also say they are increasingly concerned about the high rate of turn-over in their ranks. Minority faculty members estimate that in the past six years, 43 per cent of their fellow lawyers have left the teaching profession altogether. They cite the increasing hostility from students and...
This hostile environment may also deter promising minorities from teaching law, many fear. "Those of us in the business are extremely concerned that prospective minority lawyers who would become future law professors not be discouraged from pursuing access to the profession," Carty-Bennia says. She believes that incidents such as...