Word: lifework
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...short story. But for almost ten years that has been the achievement of Katherine Anne Porter. Probably no U. S. writer has been praised so highly while writing so little. The story that made her reputation was Flowering Judas, a sensitive, finely-grained piece of prose, but hardly a lifework in itself...
...most "abominably unknown" contemporary writer, according to Ford Madox Ford, is Dorothy Richardson, a 56-year-old, myopic Englishwoman. During the past 23 years she has published eleven volumes (eight in the U. S.) of a lifework called Pilgrimage. Ford ranks her with Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf as an inventor of the "stream of consciousness" technique, believes her obscurity is due to critics' and readers' distaste for distinguished writing...
Into the loudspeaker when it was working again Convict Mooney poured the sorry tale that has become his lifework. (In his San Quentin cell the walls are lined with 20 volumes of legal records in his case.) Rambling back to his childhood, he explained how a beating when he played hookey from school "made Tom Mooney rebel"; how his activities as an agitator caused San Francisco's Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to take "possession of the District Attorney's Office"; how when the Preparedness Day bomb exploded he and his wife were elsewhere. Said he: "Tom Mooney...
...years after he took his Yale degree in 1852, Daniel Coit Gilman seemed to his friends a young man of great promise who was floundering lamentably in his choice of a lifework. He was building better than they knew. All the time he was wandering over Europe, planning Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, teaching geography there, serving on New Haven's Board of Education, he was observing and thinking about Education. When he was called from a brief term as president of the University of California to create Johns Hopkins, his ideas were ripe...
...major trouble with Italian athletes is that they lack the ability to concentrate. Like onetime Prizefighter Enzo Fiermonte, Swimmer Gambi has several strings to his bow. He has been mildly successful as an opera singer, regards swimming not as his major occupation but as a recreation demanded by his lifework of building up his father's Ravenna stable of trotting horses which he hopes to make the best in Italy, if not in the world. Independently rich, Swimmer Gambi has for several years been challenging swimmers like Champion Marvin Nelson to a 5-mi. race...