Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Professor Passerin d'Entreves is a successful combination of continental spice and Oxonian starch. A lifelong student of political science and Italian history, d'Entreves has taken over the Spring semester of Government 106 from Prof. C. J. Friedrich, his close friend and colleague. To this position the Oxford mentor, student of A. D. Lindsay and A. J. Carlyle, brings many full years of varigated experience and academic distinction...
Much but not all of the film's lameness is counteracted by Ingrid Bergman's excellent, haunting portrayal of the princess. From a superb portrait of the starved, hollow-faced, forlorn girl she grows with great refinement into the true princess. As her mentor, unfortunately, Yul Brynner demonstrates exactly the same monotonous cold tyranny that made him so successful in The King and I. Helen Hayes, never bad, has nearly always been better than she is as the iron dowager who shuts out the world. Her stern voice and manner fit the part, but her face, a bit rosy, rounded...
...backstage compliments, the perquisite Cadillacs, the fawning headwaiters, the fluty dowagers, the company of fame. He is brash and often tactless. He suffers from what was once described as a pre-Copernican ego, i.e., seeing the whole world revolve around him. The condition was described by his onetime mentor, Conductor Artur Rodzinski, with an expressive Jewish word that means cheek, nerve, monumental gall. "He has hutzpa," says Rodzinski, and illustrates what he means with the story of how Bernstein, a mere 35, dared to conduct Beethoven's sacrosanct Ninth Symphony with the great Santa Cecilia chorus in Rome...
Died. G. (for Gilbert) Mason Owlett, 64, jowly, mossbacked lieutenant of Pennsylvania's old Republican boss. Senator Joe Grundy, onetime (1933-41) state senator and Republican National Committeeman, who in 1943 took over his mentor's Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association (which for years ran two insurance companies, a dozen state senators and some 50 representatives, held the balance of political power in the state); of a pulmonary embolism; in Philadelphia...
Harvard's mentor must center his toil...