Word: professionalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rubens lived in an age when it was possible for an extravert to be a great painter, and for a great painter to be a great success. He took every advantage of it. He was a cagey businessman, among businessmen who knew and valued good painting when they saw it...
At the beginning of this century, the sheepskin practically guaranteed a job. But by 1930 there were less than half the jobs open to more than four times as many college men, and it became apparent that there was a large gap between the training that the humanities and social...
Entering at Harvard after two years at Exeter, Charlie usually made the trek from home on foot, often twice daily. He gave most of his evenings to singing, which was a lucrative profession in those days. Solos at Symphony Hall and the Vice-Presidency of the Glee Club were the...
Robert Goffin's bounding enthusiasm has found many an outlet. Besides being a leading criminal lawyer of Brussels (until the Nazi invasion), he has authored books on legal finance, spies, gastronomy, rats, spiders, eels. He collaborated on a play with Maurice Maeterlinck. Jazz, at first his passionate hobby, is...
Ghouls and Beggars. Hunger has fostered a new profession. When the Athens powerhouse shuts down at nightfall to save fuel, grave robbers prowl the dark cemeteries, stripping the dead of the clothes they no longer need. It has been a bitter winter in Greece, and there is no fuel. Some...