Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jakob's everlasting distress, fused physics with mathematics and introduced a radically new way of seeing and thinking. It is a way that will provide humanity with a method of destroying that most complex and fragile construction, humanity. Finally, there is Paul Drude, Jakob's mentor and advocate of harmony in both life and physics, whose suicide unsettles his disciple and turns his mind toward ever enlarging thoughts of personal and global extinction...
...Tillinghast's first experience at Harvard precipitated all that followed. Graduating from the University of the South in 1962, the young student came north to Cambridge where he studied under the renowned poet Robert Lowell. Although Tillinghast found his mentor exhilarating, four years with the poet proved almost too powerful. As the erstwhile student now recalls, "You have to get out from under the influence eventually--his view of life was so overwhelming and a bit gloomy, that just for psychological reasons I thought it was important for me to leave...
Ironically, the only real fighting of the day proceeded the meet; a blow-up between Harvard coach Ben Zivkovic and UPenn mentor Dave Micahaik delayed the match 45 minutes and demoralized the Crimson team. Both the men's and the women's captains yesterday attributed their squads' defeat to the coaches' pre-meet squabble...
Perhaps only a tribute to Singer Marian Anderson, 79, could have brought together those operatic rivals Shirley Verrett, 50, and Grace Bumbry, 45, for a performance on the same stage. The first black person to sing with the Metropolitan Opera, Anderson has been inspiration and mentor to the two younger singers. Both, in fact, are Marian Anderson Scholarship winners. And so Verrett and Bumbry, who have occasionally flung verbal darts at each other, put aside their simmering feud long enough to participate in a rousing 80th-birthday tribute to Anderson last week at New York's Carnegie Hall. Since...
Cleary readily agrees. "Our success will depend on our skating and our forechecking," the Harvard mentor says. "If we forecheck well, we're going...