Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOST Americans would agree with Ralph Nader that the contest is unequal. Not that individuals have ceased to count. In a sense, they have never been more important, never more respected for their talents and skills Technology makes everyone a specialist whom everyone else depends, whether to fly planes, raise food or teach children. But somehow, the specialist-managers are losing touch with the specialist-citizens. Too many institutions have grown too big, remote, indifferent. Or so it seems to millions of people the world over, who have made "powerlessness" one of the chief complaints-and clich...
Militant Rectitude. In Revolutionary Immortality, China's bomb is viewed as a deterrent to be employed against any foreign power that tries to snuff out the revolution. Robert Jay Lifton, an Asian specialist and psychiatry research professor at Yale, believes that the death of the revolution-whether by nuclear means or otherwise-is Chairman Mao's greatest fear...
...doctor from across the hall at one point volunteer that "Experimentally, I took a trip once on L.S.D.--I had a better time in Miami Beach when it rained for two weeks." Lines like that and "I'm just a general practitioner--You want sympathy, go to a specialist," belong to a certain branch of stage convention and not to real life at all. Hence the laugh they get must be destructive in an ultimately naturalistic context...
Syndicate Specialist. A Manhattan-born Quaker, Helmsley grew up in The Bronx, joined the firm he now heads after leaving high school at 16. Rising from office boy to rent collector to building manager to broker, he performed so well that his name went on the company's title before he was 30. Later, as a specialist in syndicate purchasing, Helmsley joined with Lawrence Wien, a Manhattan lawyer and investor, and began putting together his realty domain. The Empire State Building, which they bought in 1961 for $65 million, is the crown jewel, but their widespread holdings include shopping...
...absurd, the predicament might be painfully funny. But on the page, with the writer as a troubled man snarled in the neurotic roots of his art, the situation is painfully embarrassing. It would be convenient if Ionesco were not such a compelling case of what Nietzsche, that specialist in soul diseases, diagnosed as an allergy to oneself...