Word: vocationalizing
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He has plenty to tell. The son of a Greek immigrant, he decided early to go for easy money rather than the legitimate proceeds of the small restaurant chain his father had built up from a pushcart. He began by swiping a briar pipe and a pair of sunglasses from...
But he finally felt his vocation.
"Distortion & Injustice." The Rev. Alfred McBride of Catholic University wryly asserted that if a priest who has married "takes a look at the recent encyclical on celibacy, he will find out where he went wrong. He didn't pray enough. There wasn't adequate psychological testing when he...
Sandburg grew up in Galesburg, Ill., where his Swedish father was a railroad worker. He quit school at 13, hopped a westbound freight at 17 to see the land he was to celebrate. Later Galesburg's Lombard College accepted him on the basis of a special qualifying examination. After...
Avocation & Vocation. Prescott is brash and flamboyant, the towering (6 ft. 6 in.) Hoffman cool and brilliant. Born in Chicago, Hoffman graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from the University of Illinois in 1943, returned to get a law degree after serving as an army captain in Europe (two Purple...