Word: lifework
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Blind John and blind Carole Urich went to work with a will. Almost since they met, in 1938, as blind students at Kansas University, both of them had known what they wanted their lifework to be. With the help of Bonnie, the Seeing Eye German shepherd they share, John managed 60 pastoral calls during the first month. They went to every meeting of every organization in the church community. They roused new interest among the teenagers of the congregation by assigning them small jobs to do-lighting candles, taking care of the bulletin board, ushering. John became adept at judging...
Abstractionist Hans Jaenisch, 43, is considered one of Germany's most "promising" artists. Like Hofer, he lost most of his lifework to allied bombs, but Jaenisch was almost pleased when he returned from a Texas P.W. camp and found his paintings gone. "It left me free to begin all over again." Jaenisch's Air Lift: is one of 20 paintings he did on the same theme. The first few in the series reflect his early vision of the planes as "terrifying animals moving through the air. On these fearful creatures our whole life hung." By the time...
...while neighboring missions gleam with the spick & span look of good work efficiently done, India's Jasmine Hall assumes more & more the look of a flophouse. When economizing U.S. mission inspectors arrive on a checkup, their budgetary ax falls on Jasmine Hall and India Severn's lifework is destroyed...
Since Robert Frost is only 74 and sound as a hickory ax handle, this book is not likely to be his last. It does, however, contain his lifework up to the present, including several poems not printed in book form. And though this is not the sense intended, the title is correct about the poems: almost every one of them is complete as a work of art. Moreover, Frost is a complete poet, one of the few who ever stuck it out as such in a tough country for poets. Frost's reputation has been secure for 35 years...
...jail atop Berkeley's two-story, grey stucco Hall of Justice the old crook, with the air of a man whose lifework was done, was garrulous about his career. Back in 1920, arrested for stealing a car, he learned safecracking from a fellow convict during a seven-year stretch in the New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe. Parry had stolen around $250,000 in his career, he bragged, and he had pulled 250 jobs. He didn't feel he had been greedy. Said he: "You've got to make a lot to get along. There...