Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fear increases the divisions within the society. Severing telephone lines, limiting travel and banning the sale of gasoline to private motorists has served to separate friends and families. The political situation has also driven wedges between people-between workers who wanted to strike and workers who wanted to surrender; between...
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm. By using the confidences of a pseudonymous psychotherapist, a witty and provocative reporter puts the "talking cure" on the couch, and wisely prescribes further treatment.
Squirrels, the first affront of the evening, is a pedantic and ingrown mockery. David Mamet has trundled out the theme of a reversal between two artistes, the aged veteran and the anxious ingenue, and bandied "concepts" about the stage for the better part of an hour before switching the characters...
Yas, 32, came to his profession without formal training. The son of Chinese immigrants, he grew up in Bangkok, dropped out of high school after the tenth grade and joined a rock band as a bass guitarist. At 23 he left rock for stone, becoming an apprentice at an antique...
...Reagan White House was a long journey in and out of the revolving doors of government and "consulting"--a murky profession in which his sole responsibility seems to have been the use of his government contacts. The shabbiest of Allen's clients was Robert Vesco, the convicted swindler and professional refugee, who paid Allen $10,000 a month to do whatever it is a government consultant does. A Japanese automobile company also paid Allen a substantial sum to cultivate its interests in the government-consulting netherworld. All of these activities, however distasteful they might be, appear perfectly legal, but they...