Word: vocationalizing
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"Thirty per cent of the Harvard Class of 1972 are uncertain of their eventual vocation, a significant increase over previous years." Report on the Class of 1972
More subtle than the greatness and rush of widespread popularity was the challenge to resist success and stick with the blues. Physically and morally exhausted by the direction the band was taking, Larry had to separate the music from the show, the vocation from the hype, ego, money and exploitation...
The fine artist found his place slowly among the other liberal arts, moving away from his previous position among the crafts. With the collapse of guilds as the liaison between society and the artist, commercial problems began to plague the artists as did an uninformed public who expected the artist...
As Baron von Sepper, a World War I Austrian flying ace and an enthusiastic fascist, Burton feels a lugubrious vocation to dispatch a series of wives-Raquel Welch, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon and several other international cupcakes. "They were all monsters," he explains. "They only looked human when they were...
There are other misconceptions about what the Games really are. One is held most forcibly by Avery Brundage, venerable (85) president of the International Olympic Committee since 1952. "The Olympics," he said recently, "are intended for those athletes for whom sport is merely recreation for personal pleasure. It is an...