Word: vocationalizing
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Indeed so: at age five, Sam Cummings, the son of a Philadelphia Main Line family, found an old German machine gun behind the local American Legion post and dragged it home. He rebuilt the gun and started collecting others. As a student on a term abroad at Oxford University, Cummings...
Concluded he: "Good luck to them. Good luck to you." For now at least, Pepper shakes off any notions of retiring to devote his full energies to his new vocation. Says he: "I contemplated retiring, and I sort of tentatively fixed a date-the year 2000."
I do not mean to suggest that the academic vocation precludes any enjoyment of live theater, or any discernment about it. Some of the best theater critics work at universities, and many faculty members here provide both the ART and undergraduate theater with invaluable encouragement. But there is a hidden...
The Protestant work ethic, which sanctified work and turned it into vocation, arrived only a few centuries ago in the formulations of Martin Luther and John Calvin. In that scheme, the worker collaborates with God to do the work of the universe, the great design. One scholar, Leland Ryken of...
"Each vocation is selected by graduates from a broad distribution of concentrations," the report said. Of all the career fields, medicine had the most clustered distribution, with 74.9 per cent of those interested in medicine concentrating in science and math. This percentage, however, represents a 5 per cent decrease from...