Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RIGHT AFTER dedicated doctors but before crusading coroners, journalists have recently come to occupy the spot of "most heroic profession." Walter Cronkhite, Wood ward & Bernstein, Lou Grant; in the public eye there is often a suspicion that underneath those Lois Lane outfits and Clark Kent glasses lurks the big red...
Oddly enough, Baker was raised to believe that politics is a morally repugnant business. The family law firm, Baker & Botts, which his great- grandfather joined in 1872, was the largest, most prestigious in Houston. Like his father, Baker was educated at the Hill School in Pennsylvania and Princeton, then earned...
New York financier John L. Loeb '24, who gave $1 million to the Design School and another $7.5 million to endow 15 junior professorships: "Most young professors are very underpaid compared to the salaries that they could receive in other fields. It seemed to me that one of the important...
For David Abraham, the bottom line is a tarnished reputation and the prospect of being out of work in June, when his appointment at Princeton finally expires. But for the entire profession there seemed to be another bottom line, defined by a senior historian and A.H.A. committee chairman who, after...
As with all great performers, there is no false modesty about Price. A confessed "egomaniac," she has a firm sense of her own worth--and her place in opera. It is, after all, somewhat improbable that the daughter of a sawmill worker and a midwife who both sang in a...