Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they've been trying to get him to change his costume for two years, and yet they can't find any other clothing in which he'll be a success. One night we had him appear in a tuxedo and he was a flat failure," the jazz specialist continued...
...only by mutual cooperation that any definite goal can possibly be attained. If the undergraduate is not willing to free himself to a greater extent from the exacting demands of outside activities and devote himself to "the problem of the inner life", cease to be the specialist and become more the man of leisure, Professor Babbitt's Utopia of Socratic standardization is plainly impossible. He advocates a "classic restraint" as the only solution to the hectic post-romantic ineffectuality of American civilization and appeals to academic circles to exercise their control in the defeat of the hydra-headed monsters...
...composers as Leo Sowerby, Henry Joslyn, Alfred G. Wathall, Edward Collins, Ruth Porter Crawford, Lillian Rosedale Goodman. Some of them, to be sure, are a bit elaborate for the earthy tunes that inspired them but for the most part they are well adapted. Any complaints will come from the specialist in ditties and native folk music. They will mourn omissions, but the minstrel's own apologia must answer them: "I should like to have taken ten, twenty, thirty years more in the preparation of this volume...
...Author in appearance, is the shaggy counterpart of a country doctor. This is not unseemly; his grandfather was a doctor, his father, Professor Johann Schnitzler, a once famed throat specialist. Author Arthur Schniztler studied medicine, became an M. D., lectured on ailments of the throat, at the Poliklinik in Vienna. One of his early published works was a paper on Nervous Diseases of the Voice...
...foremost in graduate enrollment so deprecate specialization. For he based his plea for endowments upon the great service to complex civilization that university trained men are doing. And certainly it is not the dilettante, however interesting he may be, who is making possible the refinement of living, but the specialist impervious to every other interest who burrows until he unearth his treasure. His importance to society, his conception of his own raison d'etre, hang on his search. And while his undergraduate, training can not have left him bare of all general knowledge, the necessity of keeping apace...