Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seemingly wholly devoted to his esoteric profession, Dubberstein lived a personal life that could have been scripted by John le Carré. He had abandoned his wife of 41 years, fallen in love with a woman of 32, and had been sharing her modest apartment in Arlington, Va.
A legend among prisoners in the Gulag, Kaminskaya was said to have the eloquence to move the most stonyhearted judge to render a merciful decision. Her scrupulous and exhaustive presentations earned praise even from Communist Party-controlled jurists at the top of her profession. In an official 1959 book entitled...
...voiced last week by Harvard President Derek Bok, in his annual report to the university's board of overseers. During his twelve years in office, Bok has often employed the report as a forum for speaking out on broad social issues (among previous topics: the need for professional education in the field of public sevice, the relationship between the university and government). This year's installment, one of his most challenging yet, is a sweeping indictment of the legal profession in America. Writes Bok: "The blunt, inexcusable fact is that this nation, which prides itself on efficiency...
A lawyer and former professor and dean at Harvard Law School, Bok, 53, criticizes the U.S. legal system for being too complicated and overcrowded with lawyers, and for failing to be accessible to the poor and disadvantaged as well as the middle class. He also maintains that the profession attracts...
At 77, Willie Mae Ford Smith is a round, sweet-faced woman with a shrewd yet sentimental eye, a determined spirit and a powerfully moving voice, now somewhat cracked by long, if lively service to the Lord. She is a beloved gospel singer, much looked to for moral and artistic...