Word: vocationalizing
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Adams' photographic career began with the first trip he took to Yosemite, with his father in June 1916. He brought along a Kodak Brownie box camera. The trip was "a tremendous event," he recalls. From that moment, the Sierra?"that great earth gesture"?dominated Adams' life, changed his vocation...
The Phoenix rationale is straightforward. Marriage is a vocation. "You cannot become a plumber or an electrician in two weeks," remarks the priest who heads the diocesan tribunal. Bishop Rausch believes that lack of mature preparation is the chief cause of trouble. "We need to move our young people beyond...
Vacations may be pointless. The Trobriand Islanders of Melanesia once found themselves with an embarrassment of leisure. Their yams came up so abundantly that they had no need to work for their food. To occupy their excesses of spare time, the islanders devised the Kula, a ceremonial maritime exchange of...
As soon as the Pope stepped from his plane he knelt to kiss his native soil, then bussed a little girl in traditional dress who handed him a bouquet. Obviously moved, John Paul spoke of "my native land, to which I remain deeply attached by the roots of my life...
Not long ago students thought a law school degree was the ticket to fame and fortune. But these days, if a student with a BA in his hand does not know what to do next, he is more apt to shrug and say, "I guess I'll go to business...