Word: vocationalizing
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There are many people, however, who have decided that their vocation must lie in some visual field. These people have little choice at Harvard but to major in Fine Arts. The curriculum rarely satisfies them. In the first place, they complain, Harvard's Fine Arts courses encourage a verbal, rather...
"The real issue, in considering the collegiate education of students who are preparing for a vocation or a profession," writes Conant, "is whether as much as one or two years of collegiate work can be permitted to be spread over a wide range of subjects, in no necessarily coherent pattern...
The Irregular Verb to Love, by Hugh and Margaret Williams, raises the curtain on a new Broadway season, but the play is haunted by the tired ghosts of seasons past. To Love is still another family comedy, the sempiternal soap opera of the theater. This time, the family is British...
Carson did not easily come by his vocation. Once he worked in an office-the Income Tax Office, of all inappropriate things. It could not last. His boss was a man called Beamish of whom he writes: "I was frightened of Beamish as I was frightened of all elderly administrators...
Turning Ideals. Prawdin leaves the reader with the haunting notion that perhaps some kind of devil is the spiritual father of Soviet Communism. Sergei Nechaev, son of a serf, grew up in St. Petersburg at a time when poor students chafed and brooded under Russia's vast and manifest...