Word: vocationalizing
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As the doubly desired object, Head plays a narrow, unrewarding role wedged between two giants. His victim-beneficiaries are creatures of enormous complexity. Alex is an employment agent who cannot find her own vocation. Her family, her friends, her life become dark and unfathomable; all that matters are the flares...
But social shifts can make familiar roles and myths archaic. Most Americans still believe that a woman's chief function is to be housewife and mother. In fact, 43% of American women today are in the labor force and 75% of these work full time, most of them because...
Many students will therefore treat themselves to Wanderjahre, living frugaily on handouts from home or picking up odd jobs. Or they may join communes, which are a practical way for unsettled idealists to live on next to nothing. Others, while still in college, will try to line up what are...
But thousands of others who are relatively safe from the draft also seem reluctant to commit themselves to a vocation. Of the 1,139 students in Harvard's class of '67, 90 declared themselves "undecided" about their career plans; of this year's 1,100 or so, there are at...
Sir: Kudos to Father Robert Duryea for not disappearing quietly following the disclosure of his marriage [April 26] and to his parish council for its supportive stand. Only when the Catholic laity realizes that celibacy in itself is not a vocation, and abandons its concept of the parish priest as...