Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN THE GREAT English actor David Garrick finished his first performance on the English stage, another actor responded to Garrick's novel, naturalistic style by remarking. "If this young fellow be right, then we have been all wrong." As it happened, Garrick was right, and his success gradually became recognized...
The government was for a short while ignorant of the enormous potential tax revenues from liquor, so that martinis flourished briefly at two for a quarter. When we graduated, the Depression was slowly ending and jobs were still in short supply. Many of us took what we could get. Another...
M.I.T. Economist Martin Weitzman may at first appear to be his profession's version of a snake-oil salesman. In his new book The Share Economy (Harvard; $15), Weitzman claims to have found a cure-all that will end both unemployment and inflation. The trick, he says, is for U.S...
As veteran journalists know, the image was grounded in some truth. Recalls Assistant Managing Editor John Elson, who supervised this week's cover stories: "When I started out, in what was then a male-dominated profession, part of the macho image was the ability to hold your liquor. Many of...
Does all this mean that journalism has turned into a profession for teetotalers? Said Managing Editor Ray Cave, nursing a modest Scotch: "Nope." We'll drink to that.