Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distaff side, Inga Swenson has in her first season proved an invaluable addition; lovely to look at, she can sing as well as speak beautifully. Nancy Marchand and Nancy Wickwire are already accomplished actresses, and show promise of further growth. And Barbara Barrie has a special gift for comedy...
...Buenos Aires area and see each other only on holidays. They do not look or act alike. Franco is a shy honor student, and Carlos Alberto is a husky athlete. Maria Fernanda is quiet, Maria Esther a chatterbox, and Maria Cristina somewhere in between. But they feel their special ties. The father, an Italian immigrant who got rich with textile mills and vegetable-oil factories, says the five are a kind of "Mafia," with their own secret jokes and fierce loyalty. The children chatter in Spanish among themselves, speak Italian to their family and English in school...
...associate professor of history at Manhattan's Finch College, who deplores the low self-esteem of the scholars of high degree. His remedy, proposed in the Educational Record: henceforth, all Ph.D.s should insist that they be addressed as "Doctor." Writes Dr. Seymour: "The title 'Doctor' commands special respect among laymen, and by failing to use it, the professor is casting away a ready means of placing the public in a respectful posture and consequently a more receptive mood...
...varied foundation, and to make it habitable for scholarship. While coping with faculty committees, regents' mandates and a legislature as lobby-larded as any in the nation (one lobby by no means friendly to the university: that of the state teachers colleges), Kerr must spy out the special problems of bigness. One of them: the necessity for another 5,000 teachers...
...medicine, broke down in 1955. But last week the A.O.A. hopefully kept its negotiating committee alive. A.O.A. members were as drug-happy as any M.D.s, crowding exhibits by pharmaceutical houses. They got an accolade of respectability with an address by Aims C. McGuinness, an M.D., a noted pediatrician and special assistant for health and medical affairs to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. But there was still a technique session titled "Manipulation of the Infant...