Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smug darkness of a provincial town." After one of his poems appeared in a London newspaper, he received a complimentary letter from Pamela Hansford Johnson, a bank clerk and aspiring poet who would later become a well-known novelist. A correspondence developed, during which Thomas assumed the roles of mentor, critic and romantic outlaw...
...angry young men. He marries his younger brother's sweetheart, Agnes Salter, writes screenplays, divorces, weds an adoring younger woman and becomes a cranky old reactionary. For his part, Fred woos and loses Agnes but decides to follow her father's practice as the village doctor. His new mentor espouses a mission that frees Fred from messianic impulses: "I don't deal in right and wrong. I deal in collywobbles and housemaid's knee...
...Cleary, the Crimson mentor, is delighted that his Crimson is rolling in the clover thanks to the committee's decision...
Alfred Stieglitz, who was to become her mentor, promoter, lover and husband and who, with her, would enact one of the great partnerships of American culture, grasped the other side of this immediately. "At last," he exclaimed on seeing her drawings in 1916, "a woman on paper!" For in the last analysis, one cannot imagine the peculiar sensibility of her work -- its steely finesse and suppleness, its imagery of blossoming, unfolding and embrace -- coming with such conviction, or perhaps at all, from a man. O'Keeffe was a woman of exquisite moral vigor. Now that she is dead, no effort...
...squads, and has won the last three match-ups in a row...Phillips and Webster each had three steals to pace Harvard...Despite hitting the 20-game loss mark for the season, Roby was pleased with his squad. "I wish the next season would start tomorrow," the first-year mentor said...