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...professor of mathematics told me; "Halsman, in a few months you can have your engineering degree and you want to become photographer!" But I had made up my mind I bought myself a photoflood lamp, a used enlarger and announced to all my friends that I had become a professional photographer...
A different perspective on the 1976 campaigns was provided the next day, when three journalists took the floor in a Science Center forum to criticize their profession for its failure to grasp what they termed the real issues of the long march from Georgia.
Robert Scheer, who did the celebrated "adulterer in my heart" interview with Carter for Playboy, Robert Schrum, the speechwriter who quit the Carter campaign in a much publicized incident last spring, and Tom DeFrank, Newsweek's Ford campaign correspondent, all took turns immolating their chosen profession.
White said the elitism of Harvard does not upset her, because she is "very used to the elitist process." She grew up, she said, in the home of a wealthy Philadelphian who summered in Maine: "My mother worked at the honorable profession of providing vittles for those with a lot...
In her effort to show how the patriarchal system has placed a series of contradictory demands on women--viewing them at once as the all-giving earth mother, the chaste, swooning virgin and the corrupting whore--Rich careens into a long historical digression that verges on the paranoic. This is...