Word: lifework
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...bootlegging and stock manipulations. What Joe preferred was the more sanitary phrase public service. All the same, Joe's main notion of public service was the kind that gets you a seat in Congress and then a desk in the Oval Office. So when it came to choosing their lifework, Kennedy's sons had no options. Long before voters ever heard of Jack, Bobby or Ted, their father aimed them at Washington. To be the elect in the Kennedy family meant simply to be the elected...
...Cronin, the impulse for his lifework came from family history. "I was raised along the river," he says. "I was in the first generation that was taught the river was unsafe--not because of tides that might pull you down but because of water quality. As a young adult, I found a legacy I had been kept from inheriting. The lives of my family had swirled around the river; my grandfather was a fisherman; that's where families gathered. I discovered that connection. But then there was a larger connection. It seemed that every community on the river had lost...
...many ways, enriched our work life, to which a cynic might respond, "Sure, if you're still working." Michael Hammer calls his lifework "undoing the Industrial Revolution." And it has been keeping him busy. Hammer, 48, is the originator and flamekeeper of a business concept called "re-engineering," a term he coined in a book he co-wrote in 1993 called Reengineering the Corporation...
Netanyahu was raised to achieve. His mother Cela studied law, and his father Benzion is a historian whose lifework, a study of the Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, was published to acclaim last year. Called Bibi from childhood, after a cousin, Netanyahu inherited his right-wing politics from his father, a disciple of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism. To members of that movement even David Ben-Gurion was not sufficiently nationalist. Netanyahu can be touchy about his family. Last week his mother lent a Time photographer six pictures of him as a youngster, then called urgently...
...enemies are no less vulnerable and right in their own minds than ourselves. With his famous taste for ambiguity, and refusal to see things in black and white (except in his condemnation of any institution that would treat humans as tokens, statistics or pawns), Greene made it his lifework to understand every position: one of his plays is even called Yes and No. And as a headmaster's son, he was a lifelong connoisseur of divided loyalties, knowing that for every commitment you honor, you betray another. As he put it in The Power and the Glory, "When you visualized...