Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...openings, both old friends and those who had never met Pollock were equally enthusiastic. Jasper Johns was particularly taken with the extraordinary range and variety of the works in the exhibition, which begins with Pollock's earliest, and remarkably mediocre, landscapes, reflecting the influence of his first mentor, Thomas Hart Benton, continues through his famous "drip" paintings of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and concludes with his anguished return to figuration just before his death...
...local power structure may also have made itself felt through Philip Kazan, brother of the congressman and mentor of the Kazen faction in Webb County's political machine...
...Tryouts were started late in November; the 50 candidates were weeded out exasperatingly slowly; and there was less than a week between the squad's selection and the first game. The team was coached by Bruce Munro, who is the varsity soccer and lacrosse coach and not a hopps mentor. Perhaps most deadly of all, however, was Munro's goal of preparing his boys for next year...
...doubts are transitory. He enjoys being grandiose. And the stance as mentor carries over to the role of Master. "When you have been Master as long as I have," he muses, "you tend to create a metaphysic about it." For him Eliot House is like a mediaeval orrery where students and tutors spin by in differential sequences like so many planets and constellations. Students take three years, tutors five to seven. "Why do all these men want to come to Harvard?" asks Finley rhetorically. "Ah, because the man won't be lost in the mass. This is what these Eastern...
...wheat, and promised Hassan $15 million in military aid to protect his borders. But it is not about to supplant French aid to Hassan's development plans, if for no other reason than the realization that the U.S. can never replace France as Morocco's Western mentor...