Word: vocationalizing
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The new general did not come to her vocation easily. One of nine children, she was impressed when her mother brought home destitute people to share the family's spartan meals. But as a teenager, she recalls, "I felt the Salvation Army discipline was too rigid, and for a good...
Ronis, who now lives in North House, was adynamo in high school, snagging avaledictorianship after captaining the math team,being on the debate team, getting straight `A's,'winning a National Merit Scholarship, whileconstantly involved in theater. His firstshow--"which may still be my mother'sfavorite"--was Once Upon a...
After a college marriage that lasted only two years, she fetched up in Cleveland, eking out a living out of the photography that had turned from hobby to vocation. Here she learned the values of being young, attractive and hardworking. Soon some of the city's wealthiest and most powerful...
There is certainly more to Simon's adolescence than this risky business. She studies literature at Hunter College, sells lipsticks at Woolworth, pastes fake diamonds into junk jewelry, and sits as a designer's model. But in posing for her own self-portrait, Simon has found a true vocation. Together...
The Pope ended the week in the southernmost state of Kerala, India's Roman Catholic heartland. Here, finally, was the sort of welcome to which the Pontiff is accustomed. Some 400,000 people attended the first beatification ceremony ever in India. John Paul told the clerics in the audience that...