Word: vocationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are two confidential clerks in the employ of Sir Claude Mulhammer, one an old, pure soul, about to retire. The other, Colby Simpkins, is a frustrated musician, whom Sir Claude believes to be his illegitimate son. Simpkins feels that his music exits in an unreal world as long as...
The thick atmosphere of good will that settles on the nation during the holiday season is welcome to everyone but the staffs of newspapers and news-magazines. Their vocation, nourished by crimes, tension, and disputes, has starved during the fortnight when even Moscow radio sent the world its season's...
The importance of the decision lay in its judicial definition of a minister, applicable henceforth to all U.S. religious groups. Part-time preaching and teaching is not enough, ruled the court. "These services must be regularly performed. They must . . . comprise of registrant's 'vocation.'" but on the...
"If a man would come in here in his sophomore or junior year, he could spend more time on his decision. He could also arrange for summer work, an invaluable aid in judging aptness for a vocation."
"Woman's vocation in life," said Painter Cassatt once, "is to bear children." She produced hundreds of children, but they were all on canvas. The daughter of a rich Philadelphia banker, Mary Cassatt embarked for Paris in 1868, when she was only 23. She spent the rest of her...