Word: mentor
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...felt like "a trapped animal" in his Midlands town. So he came to London with about ?25, a cardboard suitcase and a haversack full of books to practice his trade of being a poet and philosopher. Almost immediately he meets his mate, a New Zealander named Doreen, and his mentor, a sometime actor named Charles Compton Street. Charles introduces him to the fine art of living without working-cadging food and drink, stealing an occasional rare book, sleeping on suburban trains or on somebody's floor. Charles also introduces him to a series of Soho oddballs whose rhythmic appearance...
Died. Owen Bernard ("Bert") Brennan, 57, rough, tough-talking Teamster Union vice president since 1957, mentor and close friend of Jimmy Hoffa ("the greatest little bastard who ever put a pair of shoes on"); of cancer; in Detroit. A $15-a-week wagon driver who rose by his skill as a skull-cracking labor organizer, Brennan sported a lengthy arrest record (assault, bombing, antitrust violations), co-starred with Hoffa in close-mouthed appearances before the Senate labor-rackets committee...
Unnerving Mood. Despite such distinguished tutelage. Balthus chose to find his chief mentor in the 19th century realist Gustave Courbet, who said: "Create a suggestive magic that contains both the object and the subject, the world outside the artist and the artist himself." But Balthus was also entranced by the surrealists' probings into the unconscious. He painted streets, landscapes and people, all arranged in a well-thought-out design, all strangely still and silent, all a little unnerving in mood...
Rees, incidentally, was a teammate of Crimson field events coach Ed Stowell at Springfield College. Their coach, in turn, was present Crimson varsity mentor Bill McCurdy. It is not widely known that McCurdy is that...
...cold war; of cancer; in New York City. Born Francis X. Waldron Jr. of a middle-class Seattle family, Dennis joined the party as a youthful instructor, served as a Red agent in Europe, China and South Africa, became the leader of U.S. Communists after Moscow dumped his onetime mentor, Earl Browder, for deviationist notions. In 1950 Dennis went to jail for refusing to testify about his Communism before a House committee; again, after the 1949 trial of "first-string" Communists, he was convicted for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government and sentenced to five...