Word: vocationalized
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Distinguishing the genuinely inspiring summer jobs (real prospects for happy post-Harvard employment) from the merely challenging is only complicated by the wealth of opportunity at Harvard. Inevitably, I feel bad turning down a job that dozens of other students would chop off an ear to secure. Under this sort...
As a woman, I take exception to Sullivan's hopelessness for the inclusion of Catholic females in the modern church. I have a fulfilling high-profile job, and I also have a rewarding role in the church. I speak to our parish from the pulpit; I assist each week in...
Serious business, indeed. West Point, said General George S. Patton Jr., class of '09, is "a holy place." The academy, said General Maxwell Taylor, '22, is "not for everyone, only for those with a true vocation." That calling is to lead in battle. "Your mission," General Douglas Mac-Arthur, '03...
By such flights of self-promotion, West Point invites skepticism, if not ridicule. Yet there is no denying that the institution still succeeds in training officers who are educated about both the world and its wars, and are proud of their vocation. Perhaps most important, today as in the past...
Early porn directors also talked themselves into believing they were committing art. Ron Wertheim, Damiano's assistant director on Deep Throat, may only have been shooting porno loops but, he says in the documentary, "I approached those films as if I was Luc Godard or somebody." Damiano, who went directly...