Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society that was able to produce exceptional figures. Except possibly for De Gaulle, who was of Churchill's own generation, today's rulers seem, in comparison, faceless and mediocre. Churchill was an aristocrat, a brilliant dilettante, a creator in a dozen roles and garbs. He was a specialist in nothing-except courage, imagination, intelligence. He was never afraid to lead, and he knew that a leader must sometimes risk failure and disapproval rather than seek universal acclaim. He had been, as Denis Brogan put it, "everything but the Archbishop of Canterbury"-and he often seemed more confident than...
...provide one answer to India's problem of unwanted reproduction on the part of the 40 million ownerless, hungry, scavenging, substandard, unproductive but nonetheless revered cattle that roam the country... Because castration is almost as unacceptable to Hindus as slaughter, Frank W. Parker, a U.S. Government rural redevelopment specialist long stationed in India, hit on the alternative idea of contraception. At this suggestion animal husbandry experts at the Beltsville, Md, research center of the Department of Agriculture recently equipped 18 cows with plastic spirals and then attempted artificial insemination. A control group of 21 cows averaged 1.8 services per conception...
...crusade to save Memorial Drive got some new allies Friday when George P. Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine; heart specialist Paul Dudley White '08; and the deans of two other Massachausetts medical schools signed...
Edward L. Bernays, co-chairman of the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive, issued a statement, and said that he looked forward to a similar commitment from Dr. Paul Dudley White, noted heart specialist, and other doctors in the area...
Such scholarship, said Bishop, aimed "not toward the fellow specialist but toward the elegant amateur," will rescue research from irrelevance. As an example of serious trivia, Bishop offered his own Ph.D. thesis, a 365-page treatise on the forgotten plays of 19th century French Critic-Playwright-Poet Jules Lemaitre. "I have often thought of extracting it from the library and burning it," he said, "but I renounced that purpose on realizing that no one has looked at it in 38 years...