Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this new novel of his, Mr. Walpole has shown a most remarkable understanding of the depths and the heights of human nature. The story is the modern equivalent of the Book of Job. It is the blinding of a man by his own selfishness, and his punishment by a long series of misfortunes...
...might have been a saint but for his own egotism. Blind to all but his own ambitions, he sought to dominate everything and everybody in the diocese as he had so long dominated the Cathedral. For years he succeeded. Like Job he seemed the favorite of a merciful God, but, again like Job, his testing was inexorable. First his friends, then his son, his wife, and finally even his God Himself seemed to desert him. Step by step his punishment is meted out to him, until finally he is overwhelmed by it all, and goes down to his grave...
...Story telling, he said, "is a vital job, and the author is not a person who invents stories, but an artist, sensitive enough to feed the concepts of his mind and leave them into a form of beauty". He explained further that the novelist is bound by the tradition of his profession and by the knowledge of his technique. And this technique names from such a love of his material that he does not dare to hurt...
Luckily or unluckily the average newly-hatched college graduate finds what serves for a purpose, temporarily at least, thrust at him on the same terms which faced the milleniumite stage director, the ultimatum of "work or starve". His first job and his hardest is the job of finding a job which he can develop and which will develop him. Until he succeeds, his purpose will be lost to sight, and the vision of a kingdom round the corner dance instead before his eyes...
...obtain a "liberal education" and most of them have a general idea of what they are going to do with it when they get it. They plan "three years in the Law School" or they are going to "study business" or they have a vague idea of getting a job somewhere, teaching, or building bridges, or selling cotton. But there is one occupation at the mere mention of which nine-tenths of them will cross to the other side of the street,--the ministry...