Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ages on the cusp, as it were, of the Renaissance-when art seemed not to be entangled in false ideals and academic systems. Their bywords were purge, simplify, archaize. Like all true cultural revolutionaries, they were conservatives at heart, and they were lucky in having as their megaphone and mentor the greatest art critic ever to use the English language: John Ruskin...
...University of Chicago from 1970 to 1973, after which he returned to Harvard as a junior faculty member, gaining tenure in the late 1970s. Most of Freeman's early work focused on external labor markets, in simple terms, this meant the problem of finding a job. As his mentor Dunlop has done. Freeman has chosen to publish his research in books, rather than in articles in technical journals, which he says are often forgotten. Before What Do Unions Do? he published a study of job markets for college graduates entitled The Overeducated American and another called The Black Elite...
Despite his recent emphasis on cross-cultural comparisons. Brazelton has established a multidisciplinary training program for pediatricians interested in infants. His graduates have replicated the program at teaching hospitals around the country. "He has fostered and been mentor to the research of a lot of prominent pediatricians." Tronick says...
...decision was a personal triumph for the Siberian-born party worker and propagandist who succeeded the late Yuri Andropov in February. Leonid Brezhnev, Chernenko's longtime mentor, had waited 13 years to assume the largely ceremonial position of President, and it had taken Andropov seven months. But Chernenko, 72, had garnered the country's three key posts-General Secretary of the Communist Party, Chairman of the Defense Council, and now President-in only two months. As the parliamentary deputies rose to their feet and began to clap in rhythm, the stocky, silver-haired Chernenko savored the moment...
...Middies finished third at San Diego. Brown chose not to compete out West, instead trouncing Northeastern on the Charles. To make matters worse, Harvard got past Brown three times last year, yet once by only seconds. "We have to be faster than we were last week," says the Crimson mentor...