Word: vocationalizing
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Effervescent, mildly rakish and not given to introspection, Gainsborough was a far cry from the intractability of other, more intense painters: he possessed, to a fault, the knack of not threatening the client, either by critical insight or expressive force. When he settled in Bath in 1759, he was determined...
Karen Goldenberg, who counsels immigrants at the Brooklyn office of the Jewish Vocation Services (JVS), says, "The vast majority of people who come to Boston are coming because they have relatives or friends in the area. Boston almost exclusively takes people who have family connections."
Like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), A. (for Alfred) E. (for Edward) Housman made scholarship his vocation and writing his pastime. Like those two, he is forgotten for his academic work and celebrated for his diversion. Since its publication in 1896, A Shropshire Lad has never gone out...
How far Vita's feelings were reciprocated is ambiguous: the caress and diverted kiss that occur onstage imply rather more than they reveal. Love is an unbalanced equation. The evidence of the play echoes the reflection offered by Woolf's nephew Quentin Bell in his biography of his...
In three prep schools, Mike became a good enough football player to be offered an athletic scholarship at Arizona State, but he turned it down ("I played the game for fun"), tried a few courses at the University of Southern California, then took up speedboat racing. A crack-up a...