Word: apprenticeship
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...famous singing radio commercial: "Rinso White, Rinso Bright, happy little washday song." That was Bubbles?or rather the young Beverly Sills, a stage name that was suggested by an agent for its theatrical ring. By now, Beverly knew where she was going; ahead of her was an apprenticeship given to few singers of any kind, much less to opera singers. Primped up in big bows and crisp pink dresses by Mama (who periodically brewed her own reddener for Bubbles' auburn locks and brushed it in with a toothbrush), she set off to sing on the radio, at ladies' luncheons...
...Apprentice Program--The Apprenticeship Program in skilled trades is administered by a joint Management-Union Committee; the provisions of this program were negotiated in December 1969 through a collective bargaining agreement...
...education continued first as a social one--complete with lessons in fencing and facial exercise--and later as intellectual and moral apprenticeship. The instructions were sometimes hard and dry, but the relationship between father and daughter was full and warm. To Mary, Pound "tried to express more with his eyes than in words." In the years Pound was broadcasting his own Italian Radio "propaganda" messages to America, he spent a part of his private life giving his daughter the best books to read, guiding her in translating Thomas Hardy and his own Cantos into Italian, and encouraging...
...watching a writer just as he is hitting full stride. Richler, who was born in Montreal, is one of Canadian culture's leading unrepentant truants. He has written five previous novels. Their themes range from sociopolitical consciousness (The Acrobats) through pungently realistic picaresques of Montreal Jewish life (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) to outrageous expatriate satire (Cocksure). Finally, at 40, Richler has brought all these strains together. The result is a resounding war cry, love song and apologia for the fundamentally decent man who can fumble through the depravity of the times and come out saying: "Dr. Johnson...
...irrational, their activities seemed clamorous roboticism, their causes obscure: as the bombs dropped on North Vietnam, SDS held a demonstration against Harvard's system of parking fees for workers; as crowds marched to Boston Common to protest the invasion of Laos, SDS demonstrated at Holyoke Center against Harvard's apprenticeship program. Many felt that if SDS was the best that radicalism at Harvard could provide, even the stacks of Widener would be more fertile ground for finding a viable sense of self, and a vision of the good and true life...