Word: pastoralist
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...frustrations were increased by his career. He was not an intellectual at all. He had none of the instincts of an administrator or clerical politician. By nature he was a pastoralist -- that is, he loved the care of souls. People meant everything to him. His greatest delight -- and temptation, as he freely admitted -- was to sit in the kitchen of a teeming, pulsating Italian household, chatting to the women as they went about their work, telling stories to the children, cracking jokes with the men. Instead, his superiors made him spend most of his life as a diplomat, culminating...
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