Word: vocationalizing
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Died. Marianne Moore, 84, America's premier poetess and baseball fan; in Manhattan. Born in suburban St. Louis, Miss Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr, taught for a time, but soon discovered her vocation: writing meticulously crafted poems in which, as she once said, "the words simply cluster like chromosomes...
Other doctors, notably William Carlos Williams, have combined literature and medicine. Boris Pasternak, in Doctor Zhivago, regarded the fusion as a ministry to body and spirit. Ronald Glasser, 31, considers his excursion into prose less a vocation than a special necessity of the moment, a response to the anguish and...
In concluding, Dr. Cody proposes that had Emily Dickinson had a more loving mother, she most probably would have been a housewife who scribbled poetry in her spare time. He puts us in the uneasy position of being thankful for her pain. He seems to be relegating the notion of...
> Rudy Turilli of Stanton, Mo., found a vocation in his belief that Jesse James was not killed in 1882, but lived into the 1950s under the alias of J. Frank Dalton. After meeting Dalton in 1948, Turilli opened the Jesse James Museum in Stanton and published a book arguing his...
Dr. Stephen J. Miller, director of Admissions at the Medical School, cited several reasons yesterday for the increasing popularity of medicine as a vocation. People are making career changes and more students look at medicine as an ideal way to serve humanity in an important field, according to Miller.