Word: vocationalizing
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In "Vocation," the ultimate story of the cycle and the only one which fails to feature a celebrated name, Martone address the questions concerning the writer's art and its implied power. Abandoning all conventions, he rapidly juxtaposes images of beauty and destruction in the manner of a slide show...
The intra-Mafia dispute was settled in Masselli's favor in a Bonanno-Genovese "sitdown." But Frascone continued to object, and Masselli ordered him killed, according to last week's indictments. The admitted killer was Mike Orlando, a former grade school teacher who had switched to an exciting...
"In school I was told, 'You have a vocation, and you are either going to be unnoticed in a big town or you are going to be something big in a small town. Whatever, you owe something to the community.' That's what this is all about...
For the first time in at least the last 10 years, for example, slightly more women were interested in law as an eventual vocation than men. Teaching, which had traditionally been a female career, has also become more evenly divided between men and women.
Perhaps professors sometimes deny that ideology, personality, and academic politics influence their teaching, tenure decisions, and scholarship. Some prefer, instead, to pretend that theirs is a pure vocation, a neutral pursuit of knowledge, independent of base emotions and ambitions which exist in the outside secular world.