Word: apprenticeship
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Portman began brashly in 1953, after graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology and serving his apprenticeship with an Atlanta architectural firm. Says he: "I wanted to have an impact and was too impatient to wait for someone else to hire me." So he opened his own office in Atlanta. While professional groups winced-architects were thought to be in conflict of interest if they developed property-he designed a striking medical center for rental but could not get it financed. He did better with Atlanta's Merchandise Mart, a blocky 22-story building of showrooms and sales offices...
...Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 7:15 and 9-30, weekend showings...
Apparently the only message which got through to Karnow, Pincus, and Grumbach about the new man in the owner's office was that Peretz was serving an apprenticeship and they didn't, Karnow said, expect him to "throw his weight around...
...thought the book would take six months to research and six to write. Instead, it took four years. Says Brownmiller: "The years of apprenticeship had been for this one chance, this one crack at it. Whatever I've been in my life is in that book...
...that means she is resting on her laurels. More likely it means she finds it more useful to continue developing and polishing the styles with which she has been most successful. That has been a continuing challenge to Ronstadt, and doubtless will continue to be, but the years of apprenticeship have yielded some awfully good music...