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Putnam's imprimatur is clearly evident in the makeup of the company--four of the original 10 partners came from Putnam Management, including Cabot, who got his seven year apprenticeship there after graduating from the Business School 1959. He then left Putnam for a seven year stint at the Wellington Management Company as senior investment officer and managing director...
...this has done nothing to discourage Novelist Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Joshua Then and Now). His 14th book, aptly subtitled My Canadian Album, is a mordant, witty brief for the defense of his homeland. As evidence, the Montreal native offers a series of diverse impressions of Canada's past imperfect and present tense. He lunches with Pierre Trudeau, and remembers an earlier Prime Minister, the gnomic William Lyon Mackenzie King, who "nightly for 22 years sat by his crystal ball, beneath an illuminated portrait of his mum, and rapped with her spirit, seeking guidance...
However she wrote "13 obituaries every morning and there learned the importance of being accurate for tear of enraging relatives of the corpses." A year of subbing on every beat and solid editorial criticism provided a "good apprenticeship" for Bernstein, who, unlike many of her colleagues, had no formal school training in journalism except for her work with the Crimson...
...most visible evidence of Peretz's work is any issue of The New Republic since 1975, when Peretz assumed the position of editor-in-chief after a year's apprenticeship. During his year of training for the job, he maintained his responsibilities as Master of South House...
...century. But where are the Japanese equivalents of Spielberg and Lucas, Coppola and Scorsese-younger directors who can revitalize the box office and the art form? Some are locked into the industry's tradition-bound system of slow advancement, where experience is rewarded but rarely offered. "This brutal apprenticeship has long controlled the Japanese studio system," notes American Writer-Director Paul Schrader, who will soon go to Japan to film a biography of Novelist Yukio Mishima. "I think we're finally starting to see that system break down...