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...learned to trust her concrete advice???for instance, when she urged him to make his designs "less dressy" even though he had been thriving with highly feminine silhouettes like the tulip skirt. She wanted "easier pieces," he says. "I thought it was boring, but I kept trying, and then finally I got it, and she said, 'You got it, and it's great!' So she taught me to be a bit more accessible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Her Recipe For French Dressing? | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

Whenever he needed advice??while growing up in Yakima, Wash., Doug Meckelson always turned to his grandmother and favorite mentor, Revay Meckelson. She died in 1987, but he found similar sage counsel when he volunteered five years ago at a senior center in San Francisco. "As I listened to these elders," recalls Meckelson, 45, "I thought how great it'd be to set up a website where cybergrandparents could share their life experiences to help others, just as my grandmother had done with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Online Wisdom | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...responsible for the debacle? "It just doesn't make sense to me that a group of law-abiding people like the Mennonites would come in here on tourist visas and settle down and start farming," says Seminole Mayor Bob Clark. "They were just getting some bad advice???or someone was deceiving them." Says Reimer: "Rumors, rumors, all is rumors. But I cannot explain to them myself how it happened." Says Seth Woltz, a real estate appraiser who helped sell the Mennonites the land: "They had very few questions about the deal when we closed it. As far as their immigrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Longer the Promised Land | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Seriously, though, how do you folks conduct your strikes back there so that no blood is shed and both sides get what they want? The problem is most vexing to us, and we need a lot of good advice???or, should I say examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 13, 1934 | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...writing game." And here let it be said to the credit of most authors of any reputation?such letters very seldom go unanswered. (One of the most prominent women writers of America ever since she first made her reputation, has read, and carefully, every manuscript submitted to her for advice???and the manuscripts for years have averaged something like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collected Poems | 7/9/1923 | See Source »

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