Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other remotely creative subject matter. They told us to go to Yale if we wanted to do that crazy stuff. And while it may be apparent that Conan never had access to any sort of pre-professional training, it's obvious for Fox and NBC found a mentor before they hit the big time...
...reviewer and wife of critic Edmund Wilson, was making the most of it. She had come to the red-hot center by way of Seattle and Vassar, class of '33. Arendt, a German Jew, had been an outstanding student at Marburg University, where she was the lover of her mentor, the philosopher Martin Heidegger. She arrived in the U.S. in 1941, escaping probable death in the Holocaust...
...Audubon Ballroom 30 years ago next month, as Malcolm X, former con man and thief who had joined the Nation of Islam (NOI) while in prison and become the foremost spokesman of its fiercely proud and racist party line, played out his final political incarnation. After revealing that his mentor, Elijah Muhammad, had fathered several illegitimate children, Malcolm had split with the Nation. He had founded a splinter group, traveled to Mecca, adopted a more tolerant political philosophy (along with the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) and begun to believe he was marked for death -- correctly so. One conspirator...
...worked in the flight division. "Personally, I wouldn't put it past Joe to lie if it benefited him," says Tony Lundquist, a former Tyson pilot who now runs Wal-Mart's aviation division. A onetime protege of Henrickson's, Tyson pilot Randy Parette, refers to his former mentor as "a 600-lb. gorilla who pretty much did what he wanted in the face of rules and common sense...
...friend and mentor, Jean-Louis Trintignant is brilliant. This hardened old judge slowly gains our sympathy. This cold demeanor was used equally well by Trintingant in "The Conformist," but here he is forced to open up. The confession of his mistakes is one of the truly touching moments of the film...