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Word: professionalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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An extra 1,500 bucks will not revitalize a profession, though. More important than better pay, say disgruntled teachers, is the need to improve the prestige and power of the job, to restore its practitioners' self-respect. Says A.F.T. President Albert Shanker: "We give people poor salaries, then we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bold Quest For Quality | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

Samuel and Ida Gelfand were trained Russian dentists who emigrated to the United States just after the turn of the century. Their daughter Sara had a lifelong interest in the profession and began donating funds to the Dental School in 1968, when she established a teaching fund also named after...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: $3 Million Bequest Will Fund Dental Research | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Neither I nor any other veteran of the First World War can quarrel honorably with the Colonel's sincere pacifism. But his choice of a simile, "We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife," seems to me singularly unhappy. It is an insult to the medical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Author Sinclair Lewis, whose position as National Champion Castigator is challenged only by his fellow idealist, Critic Henry Louis Mencken, has made another large round-up of grunting, whining, roaring, mewing, driveling, snouting creatures-of fiction-which, like an infuriated swineherd, he can beat, goad, tweak, tail-twist, eye-jab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1927: ELMER GANTRY, MRS. DALLOWAY, MAGIC MOUNTAIN | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

For a couple of freewheeling years, two young Harvard psychologists have carried on wide-ranging experiments with mind-altering drugs. At the university's Center for Research in Personality, they sent their graduate-student subjects floating off into other-worldly visions of new and fantastic forms of "reality" and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine 1963: Psychic Research: LSD?And All That | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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