Word: professionals
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...intellectual still is in his private life and in the actual exercise of his profession an individual man; and it is nothing but an affront to good common sense for him to insist that his profession precludes commitment to the local (institutional) conditions of his own personal--indeed professional--existence. The matter is made worse by the fact that the typically abstract mind is not always capable of local commitments and tends often to treat this defect as if it were a merit...
The Devil's Advocate is Monsignor Blaise Meredith, a dry, self-contained English priest whose sense of vocation has been all but choked under the dust of years in Vatican offices. As he sees himself, he is one of God's empty vessels, a decent man barren of...
The arguments against the loyalty provision, and especially against the included affidavit requirement have been thoroughly presented. In outline, opponents of the oath contend the following: First, loyalty affidavits are useless, since true conspirators would not hesitate to sign them; second, the oath and affidavit single out the academic profession...
Before anyone else in the courtroom could move, Gunther Podola turned calmly away and stepped quickly and surely down the steps from the dock to the cells below. Faithful to the last to his profession of emotional shock and indifference, he showed no sign of realizing that he had just...
To the hard-working newsmen, the first commandment of the profession is: get the story. Following this time-honored tradition under the hard eye of a demanding editor, a good reporter or photographer, haunted by the thought of being scooped, will use any trick of brain or brawn that he...