Word: vocationalizing
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Berners-Lee comes by his vocation naturally. His parents helped design the world's first commercially available computer, the Ferranti Mark I. "The family level of excitement about mathematics was high," he says, recalling the breakfast-table teasing of his younger brother, then in primary school, who was having trouble...
"Bill Weld has chosen a vocation through which he serves the community day in and day out, while Rosie O'Donnell, both on and off stage, has shown that no matter what you do in life, there is always a way to reach out to help others," she said.
Powell has merged his vocation with his avocation: wherever he's invited to speak, he gives second or third speeches to local community groups. In Scottsdale, Arizona, at a Boys and Girls Club, the kids had questions for him. What size shoe does he wear (12EE), and would he do...
It is fitting that the heroine of the author's fine, quietly melancholy second book, Naked Sleeper (HarperCollins; 235 pages; $23), should share her predecessor's vocation, for she too seems compelled to intensify her sense of disconnect. Though Nona never leaves her native Manhattan, she teaches English to lonely...
Set in a seedy Manhattan hotel lobby in 1928, Hughie is an old-fashioned tale--even the clock on the wall ticks in waltz tempo. And Erie Smith (Pacino) is an old-fashioned gambler, a loser out of Damon Runyon. For Erie, horseplaying is a sacred vocation. "I'd rather...