Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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No one asks the novelist why he writes novels or the poet what is his purpose in writing poems. The lilies of the field, as I remember were not required to have a demonstrable purpose. Why cannot history be studied and written and read for its own sake as the...
The rise of suicide manuals [March 21] has occurred only as a reaction to the medical profession's insistence on prolonging life through technology. For those of us who do not want to spend our final days on earth manipulated by machines, it is helpful to know that there...
Lizandick (liz n 'dik) n. pl. [contemporary usage fr. Liz and Dick, often followed by exclamation point, i.e., Lizandick!] 1. Archaic. Mythic American actress and Welsh actor whose names were eternally coupled despite their celebrated uncoupling(s) 2. Aging and forever expanding histrionic duo whose sum is greater than...
...took for granted that he would be a success in whatever profession he chose. He might even be an actor. He knew that he would marry a beautiful and sensitive woman by the time he was twenty-three. She would not be a professional woman like his mother. His children would have the complete attention of their mother; the Richard Raskinds would do a damn-sight better job of bringing up the kids than his parents had. Renee, on the other hand, looked forward to growing into womanhood, marrying happily, and starting a family. Of course, all of this...
Geraghty said that a lawyer may become frustrated because he is "not a productive member of capitalist society... You're doing something that's enormously derivative." She said her biggest reservation with the legal profession is that it places too much emphasis on the "adversary process." "It puts a premium...