Word: professionalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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... Is this not like Hitler's book-burnings ? If Chaucer must be banned because he tells us that medieval Jews were usurers (a profession forbidden to medieval Christians by their popes, and to medieval and modern Moslems by their Koran), what of Shakespeare with his Shylock, and Dickens with...
Last week a group of Illinois churchmen, led by conservative Roman Catholic Bishop James A. Griffin of Springfield, vehemently agreed. Said Bishop Griffin: "We want to know what we're paying for. . . . Thousands of [Dr. Stoddard's] future students believe in the objective validity of [original sin and...
Midshipmen learn that "the fingerbowl is provided as an assistance in cleansing one's lips and fingertips," and emerge with the old-fashioned polish that marks their profession.
"The Soviet reporter is free because no exterior opinions can influence him. The Soviet journalist is an official worker. He gets wages for his work, but he does not work for money. . . . Abroad the journalist's profession is a career. With us it is a combat post."
Markey James developed an early interest in history and read Froissart's Chronicles in Enid's one-room public library. He also studied up on the lives of U.S. Presidents. "My favorites were George Washington (though he seemed too good to be true), Andrew Jackson (for his refusal...