Word: professionals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of the political climate young Deutsch was unable to get a job in his chosen profession, teaching law. As a German and as a Social Democrat, he found all doors closed to him. "The Czech universities employed only Czechs, and the Nazi universities employed Nazis," he recalls softly.
Although the river, the town and the nation of the book are not named, a compact and teeming world is irresistibly realized. There are those special breeds of Levantines and Greeks who stick it out on the ragged edges of free enterprise; the inevitable scholars, priests and primitive-art collectors...
Some 50% of all domestic production, which now stands at 8.7 million bbl. per day, comes from wells dug by the industry's 10,000 independent wildcatters. The breed's home base is the boom city of Houston, and the risks and rewards of the profession are reflected in a...
This is a troubled world. Threatening forces continue to challenge us. For this reason, we must have a reliable intelligence service--the President's eyes and ears. Yet we are seeing and hearing dimly because of the present condition of the Central Intelligence Agency. In the past, the agency...
The evolving status of gays, and the way they are perceived by heterosexuals, is all the more surprising because of the nature of the gay society. Homosexuals form the most amorphous and isolated -though also the most pervasive-of all American minorities. Blacks and Hispanics, for example, are unified to...