Word: vocationalizing
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Told by a doctor at the age of 43 that he had a year to live, Anthony Burgess greeted the news by taking up a literary career. He turned out five books in one year, hoping that the royalties might make a legacy for his wife. Now, 23 years and...
His true vocation, he says, is the one he has aspired to ever since adolescence, when he sat transfixed by a BBC radio broadcast of Debussy's L 'Après-Midi d'un Fanne: composing. With little outside encouragement, young Burgess taught himself music, beginning with...
Granted, I seem to hold opposing opinions from page to page, but this is in character with a man of mixed Roman Catholic and Jewish heritage, and who wrote a novel about the search for a vocation only to find, at the end of seven volumes, that his intended career...
Speaking of the past recaptured, I am delighted to report that a selection of my letters is being published, edited by Philip Kolb, an American professor, with an introduction by J.M. Cocking, a British don. He writes, "The most exciting references to Proust's developing sense of vocation come...
A shade past the ingénue stage, but not quite right yet for classic leading-lady roles, Margaux Hemingway, 27, apparently has to take what comes in between. And that means teaming up with Elliott Gould, 44, in something called Over the Brooklyn Bridge. (In a singular stroke of...