Word: technician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good. But Capra comes to grief in over-playing Tracy's love for people, a remarkable love that is shown swelling up within him as he gossips with a barber and watches a radio technician chewing gum. But the most fantastic demonstration of earthy affection appears when Tracy plays wing-tip tag with a business underling over an airfield. They barrel-roll among the clouds for all the world like long lost brothers. This is during the people-are-everything stage. A little later, when Tracy momentarily shifts to the votes-are-everything viewpoint, he tells the same underling...
Claiming he was a merchant marine radio technician trying to get back to his ship in New York, and using the name "Francis McGowan" the shabbily-dressed vagrant worked through C-entry in Dunster House and was apprehended by Yard police as he tried to talk his way past the Winthrop House janitor...
Next year his wife, who left medical school to get married, is going back to school herself-to become a laboratory technician...
Schuman liked to say, "I am a technician, not an ideologist." He had a profound distaste for "isms." Therefore he was capable of as many twists and turns as he found necessary in the daily business of saving the Republic. But at the same time, Schuman never lost his quiet humanity nor his faith in men-qualities which distinguish him from the "Coco" doctrinaires of the Left and the gauntly pessimistic De Gaulle on the Right...
Such a student, lacking guidance, can easily become confused by the wide range of concentration requirements and specialize to an extreme degree. He can dispatch his general courses in a single year, spend the rest of his college tenure concentrating in a single field, and graduate textbook technician, without the large store of general knowledge the system hopes to offer. If this man were a candidate for honors, he would be inclined to place a heavy value on concentration under the existing system. Charged with extensive preparation for General Examinations, the undergraduate often feels bound to take the maximum number...