Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without a Chief Justice." In Washington, where secret meetings with newsmen seldom stay secret long, every reporter soon knew that Brownell had leaked the story. Next day, after Ike had confirmed the news at his press conference, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's veteran Raymond Brandt, longtime specialist in Supreme Court affairs, got to his feet. "Pete" Brandt had been refused an interview with Brownell a few days earlier. Pointing his pencil menacingly at Ike, Brandt asked: "Is it going to be the policy of this Administration to leak such important news to friendly newspapers...
...Pennsylvania announced that after many years of effort, one of its scholars had succeeded in translating part of the oldest-known pharmacopoeia, dating from about 2100 B.C. The university's Assyriologist Samuel Noah Kramer needed the help of Pennsylvania State College's Dr. Martin Levey, a specialist in the history of science, to figure out the materia medica which the ancient physician was prescribing. Most were dissolved in wine or beer, e.g.: "Grind to a powder pear-tree wood and the moon plant, then pour kushumma wine over it and let [plain] oil and hot cedar...
...demand answers which promise quick, sure, painless solutions. The immature are sure that only a knave or a fool . . . could have made a losing bet. The mature mind resists the search for panaceas and scapegoats . . ." ¶ Overspecialization is what worries Hamilton College's (Clinton, N.Y.) Robert Ward McEwen. Specialists tend to get so wrapped up in their own fields that they cannot function effectively as citizens, said Dr. McEwen. "Many people turn to murder mysteries for escape from their specialization. But escape is not enough. The most important danger ... is the myopia the specialist develops . . . The need today...
...recommendation is now on the desk of Assistant Defense Secretary John A. Hannah. Hannah, Defense Department manpower specialist, expects to reach a decision on the proposal within the next few weeks...
...everything from how to be a beautician to how to drive an automobile, while the bases of the oldtime classical education receive less and less attention. "The process of specialization has . . . turned out to be a process of inhibition ... In the United States, we have discovered that [a specialist] can be a man who learns less and less about less and less...