Word: vocationalizing
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You will notice that I regard a trained professional actor with as much respect and seriousness as the world regards a surgeon, a tax lawyer or a bishop. If we are to a have really capable professional actors (there are only a few on display in this country at present...
A Mysterious Brew. Despite all his efforts, Barker found that serious ailments were often still taken first to a diviner, on the theory that no white doctor could solve the "illnesses of the people." Barker has considerable respect for the sincerity of the witch doctors, who regard their vocation as...
Since a priest is also a man, his human appetites are apt to get in the way of his vocation. Graham Greene used this simple fact of religious life with searing effect in The Power and the Glory. In his second novel, Author William Michelfelder, onetime reporter on the New...
It is his superior, an aged and very human monsignor, who takes charge. He also carries the author's message -in purple language and in terms so unorthodox that many a Catholic will find it hard to accept. Long before he saw the lipstick, the monsignor knew that "the...
In a summary of the findings to date, written by Douglas in the form of a "Memo from a Minister's Wife," the typical MW tells the congregation: "Please realize that my husband's vocation does not automatically make me an inspirational speaker, or confident group leader, or...