Word: vocationalizing
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The whiny oddball crew assembled in Angels Fall is not without its vagrant appeal, though the play's title is pretentious. As ill chance has it, the characters are immured in a New Mexico mission house on a false atomic-emergency alert. There is a rich widow (Tanya Berezin...
"Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Repeating those words of Jesus (John 15:13), Pope John Paul II last week presided over the canonization of a fellow Pole who greatly inspired his own vocation as a priest: Maximilian Maria...
The time is 1933; the place Frankfurt, Germany. By vocation, Haider is a professor of German classics who also writes novels. He is the sort of man who is appalled by the fact that Goethe refused to send Beethoven money when the composer was in desperate need. Haider's...
Unsettled by this unfavorable attention, the I.A.C.P.'s executive committee voted only to censure, not expel him. In the end, Murphy took the incident as further proof of one of his earlier volleys at the I.A.C.P.: "By your action, you summon up the image of police chiefs as members...
Attempting to spook the bourgeois sensibility, of course, has been Mailer's vocation for a quarter of a century. He has rarely done it so effectively, perhaps because now the blood is real, for the first time since Mailer stabbed his second wife with a penknife in 1960 (and...