Word: vocationalizing
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"I know I can write, and one of these days I mean to produce a good book," she announced in a letter at 22. Virginia's father was Sir Leslie Stephen, the critic and biographer, and she grasped early that she had inherited his vocation. Virginia also sensed the...
Platonic Passions. Her sense of vocation seemed to compensate for her lack of social and sexual ease. "I went to a dance last night," she wrote at 23, "and found a dim corner where I sat and read In Memoriam. You see I am not successful." It was only in...
Of her womanhood, and of her openly hostile attitude toward the church Heyward says, "I am a woman but that's secondary. My vocation now is to be doing what I'm doing and that includes doing battle with the Episcopal church.
Tennessee Williams stands in an apostolic succession from Aeschylus in that slender company of men who, by vocation, are destined to write high drama. Within his own life span, Williams' characters, scenes and lines have become part of the civilized world's fabric. But Williams is a lyric...
"You can use me as a prop, but I won't perform," insisted New York Senator Jacob Javits, 71, agreeing to pose for photographers with Daughter Joy, 27. Javits, who had come to Boston's Charles Playhouse to see his offspring sing and dance in the stage musical...