Word: vocationalizing
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At the urging of her psychiatrist, Sexton began to write verse. What started as therapy quickly became a craft, a vocation and a career. Her letters frequently refer to poetry as her life saver, but elsewhere she sees her work as appalling in its blunt candor. "Creative people must not...
At the same time the Mellon study notes cases where Ph.D.s who found jobs in corporate management were able to continue their scholarship outside their vocation, publishing articles and books.
As a drama critic, George Bernard Shaw demolished most of the plays he saw; as a dramatist, he demolished most of society as he saw it. In his own eyes, Shaw was the anointed saint of iconoclasm, pursuing his vocation like a holy terrorist and treating his audience as his...
Soon afterward, the high school dropout made philosophy his vocation.
Peirce has only gradually discovered his vocation. After getting his B.A. from Princeton and studying international relations at Harvard, he became a Congressman's aide, then political editor of Washington's Congressional Quarterly. There he was struck by the dearth of information on state and local problems. He...