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An outspoken liberal who "enjoys controversy," according to one colleague, Knowles is proud of the fact that he can pick up the phone and bring all major news media to his office in less than an hour. In the last few years, his controversies have been well-chosen and he...
Noble Profession. One reason for the upset was that Bumpers came across as a cool, rational and intensely sincere candidate whose natural style contrasted sharply with the contrived, emotional preachings of Faubus. Articulate, handsome and husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.), Bumpers, 45, laughed readily, shunned speech texts, spoke quietly and...
Historically, the Roman Catholic Church has regarded virginity as a state of perfection superior even to marriage. But this is a concept that many modern Catholics-theologians as well as laymen-find difficult to accept. The last church legislation governing the ritual profession of virginity was issued in 1596. Thus...
...comic-terror story of the amateur trying his hand at a craft not his own and, without exception, suffering defeat and humiliation when he attempts to master it. "I think he has an idea that there's a kind of mystery one can get to, a really professional mystery of an altogether exciting kind," says Robert Silvers, editor of the New York Review of Books and one of Plimpton's closest friends. "But if an amateur enters into this, he will stumble into a nightmare. It's always a story of failure, with some terrible thing happening...
Rebuilding Confidence. The center of this new profession is Manhattan, where four firms within the past 1½ years have concentrated on working with the dehired. THinc. Career Planning Corp. deals exclusively in outplacement; David North & Associates, Gough Management Services, and Career Directions Corp. also practice conventional executive recruiting. Their...