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Dante Della Terza, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, said yesterday Moravia is "without a doubt the greatest living Italian novelist," adding "he is a great professionalist; he lives by writing...
...struggle upward, Big Men on Campus who scorned study but succeeded by using college to form useful, lifelong friends. What is distinctive about American students today, says Kenistoji, is not the beats and the draft-card burners, whose revolutionism is only beard-deep, but a new breed of "professionalists." They are the "academically committed young men and women, who value technological, intellectual and professional competence above popularity, ambition or grace." The professionalist is not a status seeker, for he has already arrived. He prizes "the expertness of the man rather than the man himself" because this is what really counts...
Activity v. Self. The professionalist may vaguely believe in God, may even go to church, but "religion plays no important role" in his professionalist attempts to find a meaning in life. Ethically he is a relativist, an existentialist who prefers Tillich to St. Thomas, who reads Camus rather than Marx. His intellectual style is "anti-ideological, pragmatic and empirical," much in the mainstream of American tradition. But he does have tensions, a sense of uneasiness, a vague feeling of disquiet, and they are rooted in his strivings to reconcile two separate parts of his existence, "his public and his private...
...past year Harvard Student Agencies has appeared in these pages on no less than forty occasions. At length there must come a time to ask why the HSA should be the subject of such continual controversy. The Agencies form a complex of highly professionalist businesses, controlling a number of monopolies, turning over vast sums of money, employing a large percentage of the undergraduate body, and expanding furiously in all directions. The HSA unquestionably is important, and it is controversial for at least three reasons: it lacks a rigidly defined scope of activity; the secrecy it imposes on its financial affairs...
Employee relations, collective bargaining, publications, and "environmental engineering" are all in the realm of industrial relations. "The expert" said James De Pasquali of American Airlines, "must understand the needs of the worker and of the capitalistic system. He must become a skilled professionalist able to handle any area of boss-worker relations which may arise...
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