He had been pursuing an agreeable career as an upper-class architect of schools and mansions when, in 1922, he won an international competition for a new headquarters for The Chicago Tribune.
"He'll probably be doing industrial training films in a couple of years and nobody ever will hear of him again," predicted Fred Thompson, whose own agreeable career as a character actor, whether as a Republican pitchman in his Senate salad days or more recently on "Law and Order," has yet to earn him an Oscar, Emmy or presidential nomination.
Although not as comprehensive as Praxis, these other courses provide a taste of what the profession is about and can give attendees an idea of whether a tech-transfer career might be agreeable.
He seemed to have returned to the personality he displayed earlier in his 16-year career, a happy, smiling, agreeable guy.
On its review, Monthly Film Bulletin qualified Presley's career as "one of the most puzzling and less agreeable aspects of modern popular music".
"The Great Buck Howard," an agreeable show business satire with a warm heart, was inspired by the career of the Amazing Kreskin, a k a George Joseph Kresge Jr., the 1970s television mind reader who still pops up on the tube now and then.
It is plausible to judge that if the king imposes unjustified restrictions on people's opportunities to interact with each other on mutually agreeable terms, that in itself counts as violation of the ideal of careers open to talents or equal opportunity in the formal sense.
What was almost unique about him and makes his career so fascinating is that what the ordinary careerist achieves by making himself agreeable, falsely or otherwise, Reggie achieved by making himself disagreeable.
Conducting himself with as much shark-grinned spin before Morris's typically intimidating camera as he did when dodging questions about WMDs from the global media, Rumsfeld is an almost dismayingly agreeable interviewee, rarely pausing for thought as he rattles off canned, comfortable reflections on his political career.
Solidly schooled in jazz, with an agreeable personality and a can-do attitude, Ms. Partridge has the foundations for a modest pop-jazz singing career.
She studied for years with some of the greatest masters of Persian song before beginning her career in 1942 under the stage name Marzieh, a popular Iranian name meaning laudable or agreeable.
