Word: apprenticeships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canadian-born, the daughter of a machinist, Bonnie did her apprenticeship in U.S. coffeehouses and Canadian lumber camps...
Parish Parson. Barth spent a year grappling with Von Harnack's historicism. absorbed more liberal theology at the universities of Tubingen and Marburg before being ordained in 1908 by his father at the Reformed cathedral of Bern. He served his ecclesiastical apprenticeship as an assistant pastor in a French-speaking parish near Geneva. Then, in 1911, he was called to the Reformed Church of Safenwil, a small mill town in northern Switzerland, where he married a sprightly young violinist named Nelly Hoffman...
...Realities in Amber. Like Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, the ancestor of most German philosophical novels, The Demons is a search for reality. The title refers to a medieval manuscript-discovered in the course of the story and included in toto-that implies that each man's demon is a second, obsessive, false reality, which he must learn to discard or to unify with his true self...
Better Than the Mines. In pursuit of his trade, the aspiring major-league umpire must serve a lengthy minor-league apprenticeship (average duration: five to seven years), pass an exhaustive, FBI-type security check. Even after arrival in the majors, an umpire's tenure is chronically insecure: he can be optioned, traded or fired, sometimes on whim...
...Philosopher. Gus Grissom's almost stoic calm in the face of the unknown was the product of both an introspective nature and a long and dedicated apprenticeship. The smallest (5 ft. 7 in.), most soft-spoken and most reserved of the astronauts, he tried the Air Force briefly as an aviation cadet just before World War II ended, later re-entered it after getting a mechanical engineering degree at Purdue. He flew 100 combat missions in the Korean war (Distinguished Flying Cross, two Air Medals), returned to the U.S. as a pilot instructor at Bryan, Texas. Says his pretty...