Word: vocationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in 1904 to a New York socialite family of Swiss origin, Columbus came to his specialty by a combination of inheritance and intellectual curiosity. The family vocation was banking, but its avocation was sailing. His great-uncle, C. Oliver Iselin, was four times a defender of the America'...
On the whole. Author de Lima's narrative offers more tricks than treats. She raises the question of artist v. society, love v. vocation, honor v. survival, but her hero is not big enough to embody these dilemmas. His conscience is not so much troubled as missing. Still, her...
"I am a man of God," said the tall, black-clad man as he smiled shyly at his audience. "I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation." The Prior of his Dominican monastery would probably express the vocation differently, but...
Moment of Faith. Brother Antoninus, 46, came to his vocation through labyrinthine ways. Born William Everson in Sacramento, Calif., to a Norwegian-born bandmaster turned printer, he put in some time at Fresno State College, married his 1 high school sweetheart ("A square thing, but it happens to be the...
"People in Love." How the son of General Sherman, a nondenominational Protestant who believed in "truth," came to be a Jesuit spellbinder is told in this fascinating biography by Joseph T. Durkin, himself a Jesuit and professor of American history at Georgetown University. Tom Sherman, born in 1856, was brought...