Despite many years of earnest effort, academic science remains a less-than-ideal vocation for women as well as for parents overall.
Hawks weaves brawny romance and humor and a man's-man sort of heartbreak into his tribute to the ideal of vocation; the risky job of lifting mail over and through the mountains becomes a crucible of character, group feeling, and sexual loyalty.
Here he continues to examine the influence of Chinese literature on Japanese writers, addressing in particular reactions to Sung ideas, Zen Buddhism, and the ideal of literary vocation, michi.
The British government often tried to recruit mapmakers as spies, their vocation being an ideal cover, and, that year, Fawcett went to Morocco, where, while surveying, he also served as a secret agent.
So it is with Father Regis (alias Brainsy) in a story with that title, whose ideals have driven him into the vocation of teaching in a monastery school.
Select a vocation which helps realize your ideal of compassion".
He called such a character a "politician with a sense of vocation" (Berufspolitiker) who combines a passionate conviction in supra-mundane ideals that politics has to serve and a sober rational calculation of its realizability in this mundane world.
Fargeon's impressions of Marie Antoinette are particularly compelling, in part because of their intimacy and his keen senses, but in part because he is a witness who, despite a vocation that depended almost entirely on an aristocratic clientele, believed ardently in the ideals of the Revolution.
The opening chapters of Genesis provide an ideal context for the exploration of the limits and potential of freedom, and thus also the identity and vocation of a human life.
