Word: mentor
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Most of the new works are by California artists who practice a particularly virulent form of pop art known as "funk," the aim of which seems to be to put on everything and everyone in sight. Mentor of the group is San Francisco Sculptor Peter Voulkos, now 44, who a decade ago at Los Angeles' Otis Art Institute introduced a whole generation of art students to ceramics. Among his disciples was Berkeley's James Melchert, 37, who today turns out baffling ceramic figurines molded like coffee mugs, Mickey Mouse heads or crumpled rags; they are to be used...
...anything in life is certain, it's death, taxes and the fact that squash players are gentlemen. Two years ago, Jack Barnaby's curtain call as the Crimson's squash and tennis mentor, the Princeton Tigers, undefeated and cocky as hell, invaded Cambridge for their annual squash showdown with Harvard...
Heavy rainfall prevented the completion of all but one varsity match and left coach Jack Barnaby's number one squad without a single team victory. The second squad, coached by freshman mentor Corey Wynn, beat Pheiffer College 8-1 for Harvard's only victory...
...Like a muse-spurned poet thumbing through the rhyming dictionary, Lyndon Johnson diligently seeks out the sayings of his embattled predecessors. Last month his favorite prophet was Abraham Lincoln. This month's oracle is his lifelong idol and sometime mentor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In his commentaries on the Viet Nam war last week, L.B.J. invoked F.D.R. to rally support for the cause...
...more given to prodigality than his mentor, Senator Harry Byrd (who died in 1966), Godwin is considerably more willing to concede that change is inexorable. When he took office, Virginia's financially starved educational system ranked 38th nationally in dollars spent per pupil, not to mention the illiteracy rate and median school years completed. It ranked dead last among ten Southern states in school expenditures as a percentage of personal income. Yet, thanks largely to the suburban outflow of well-to-do Washingtonians, Virginia's voters today are the wealthiest citizens in the entire South...