Word: vocationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drum Taps, by Walt Whitman (Nov. 22, 1865): "Mr. Whitman . . . has no ear, no sense of the melody of verse . . . fortunately [he has] better claims on the gratitude of his countrymen than any he will ever derive from his vocation as a poet . . . His duties in the hospitals at Washington...
He explained that he had always been a "biologist" at heart, and never a sailor. "Being a member of the Imperial family," he said, "I had no freedom of choosing my vocation."
Trying Too Hard. Marcelle Gallois seemed like countless other would-be painters of the day. What brought her to the Benedictines was a combination of esthetic and religious feelings that for years left her vocation in doubt. She describes a memorable Easter-week visit, at the age of 23, to...
It is the vocation of Chicago's Paul Hutchinson to follow and analyze the course of U.S. Protestantism. Longtime journalist, ordained minister and author (The New Leviathan), he is editor of the Christian Century, has been a member of the Century's staff for over 26 years. In...
The Attitude of Love. To Menninger the practice of psychiatry is essentially a religious vocation. "Consider [the psychiatrist's] ministry of care to the most miserable, the most unloved, the most pitiable, and at times the most offensive and dangerous of human beings . . . Consider what you call his tolerance...