Word: vocationalizing
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Back in the early 70's, the American Shipbuilding Company, Steinbrenner's vocation, had some problems with the government. A longtime contributor to the Democratic Party, Steinbrenner knew about political finance, so when Herbert Kalmbach asked for a little help for his boss, the meaning was clear. So Steinbrenner generously...
MacLeod played quarterback as a freshman and was still adamant on being a signal caller as a sophomore "until I realized that I would be ninth out of ten quarterbacks." The coaching staff wanted him to switch back to safety. MacLeod, however, decided to play defense, and that his true...
Signs of that life began in Poland, where the son and grandson of rabbis was afflicted by skepticism. "I began to doubt," he recalls, "not the power of God, but all the traditions and dogmas." Deterred from a religious vocation, Isaac followed his equally radical brother Israel Joshua to the...
Ending the crisis of vocation. The shortage of priests and nuns in the West is near the peril point in nation after nation, though there are signs that the exodus and the precipitous drop in new seminarians may both be bottoming out. In West Germany's church, engorged though it...
The job of network anchor may, after years of struggle, bring nationwide fame and fortune. But there are now literally hundreds of men and women who, sometimes with the flimsiest of credentials, are making big names and big money anchoring local news programs. That ostensibly undemanding vocation is fast becoming...