Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playing third base in a Saturday-morning softball league ("a smart ballplayer and a good spray hitter," appraises one teammate). Moreover, in a business where the top dogs are usually tightlipped, Tartikoff is candid and accessible-qualities that have made him the most publicized network programmer since his legendary mentor, Fred Silverman...
...From all we've heard about Harvard, they're an excellent soccer team. We think our brand of play is very similar to Harvard's," says the Bruin mentor, who was a member of UCLA's national runner-up squads...
...familiar with tales of Eppinger's past. Dr. Hans Popper, 80, former dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and a pre-eminent hepatologist, was a student of Eppinger's in Vienna in the 1930s. Popper's feelings toward his former mentor are ambiguous. On one hand, he says, Eppinger was a "cold, unapproachable man" who, throughout his career, was "ruthless as far as human life was concerned." On the other hand, Popper, who is Jewish, feels he owes his life to Eppinger, who warned him to flee just hours before...
...problems aside, Brady's achievement bulks large indeed, as get a poignant portrait of this troubled, brilliant writer. As the author desired, we do come away with an impression of Boswell as a powerful and interesting personality in his own right, far away from the shadow of his brilliant mentor. We understand better the mind that absorbed and synthesized detail like no other and consistently entertained Samuel Johnson, the most demanding of conversationalists. And we take satisfaction in a book that should set the standard for biographies of Boswell, as Boswell's own work set the standard 200 years...
...their paths to success seldom cross where Cozza position as the 13th most successful active college coach-on consistency, the Crimson mentor has relied on a dynamic, exciting offense. There his baby, the Multiflex, has bcome Harvard's trademark...