Word: vocationalizing
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Baldassare Castiglione's only ambition and natural vocation was "being welcome in the world." A born courtier, he had few worries in his early life except his mother, who kept trying to get him married when he was having too good a time as a bachelor. He practiced worldliness...
So rarely are we given an opportunity to pay into the private lives of our college professors that we should consider this charming novel of travel brought to us by Dr. Walter Starkie, professor of Spanish at the University of Dublin, an invigorating experience. In Raggle Taggle, an crudite man...
As a writer, Pegler's chief merit is an attentive, saturnine realism. The first paragraph of his piece before last week's most widely publicized prizefight: "Jack Sharkey, the prizefighter who took up failure as a vocation in life and made a brilliant success of it, is fighting...
Six years ago, forty-five per cent of the graduates of Harvard College chose business as their vocation. Among the members of the class of 1937, if any reliance can be placed on the returns from the Phillips Brooks House questionnaire, the number will be nearer twelve per cent. The...
French Royalist exiles introduced seduction as a fine art, adultery as a vocation. Marie Leveau spied a rich field for blackmail.