Word: vocationalizing
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Bob Dole still carries the duties of Republican Senate minority leader while campaigning cheerfully every spare moment; to him politics has been vocation and avocation for decades. Governor Michael Dukakis divides his week, not quite so cheerfully, between the road and the Massachusetts statehouse. One Sunday night in Knoxville, Iowa...
Televangelism is a special kind of big business. In less than two decades, the vocation of preaching the Word of God via video has grown from hardscrabble beginnings into far-flung real estate and broadcast empires with assets ranging in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In almost every instance...
Taylor discovered his vocation while at Syracuse on a swimming scholarship. It came as an inexplicable flash, "telling me that I'm to become a dancer -- not any old dancer, but one of the best." The flash was tardy; college is dangerously late to start serious dance training. But Taylor...
Lacroix discovered his vocation rummaging through his grandmother's attic in Arles, where he lost himself amid stacks of fashion magazines dating back to the 19th century. One day at Sunday lunch Lacroix was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Said he: "Christian Dior." He attended...
Throughout his career, Mathias, 64, often behaved as though the Senate were his avocation rather than his vocation. He seemed to serve neither Republican nor Democratic interests but the private party of his own views, establishing a consistent history of supporting civil rights, voting rights and arms control. He was...