Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college that she would be a poet, and the task she set herself while at Vassar -- "to develop a manner of one's own, to say the most difficult things and to be funny if possible" -- remained the same throughout her career. She sought out Marianne Moore as a mentor, but she did not always take the older poet's technical advice: "I'm afraid I was quite ungracious in that I accepted most of your suggestions but refused some -- that seems almost worse than refusing all assistance...
...insolent and smug dismissal of a petition with strong popular support is enough to halt the council's slide into irrelevance and raise the ire of heretofore (justifiably) uninterested students. The council can surely expect a jump in refund requests next semester; and, thankfully, Gabay, unlike his autocratic mentor in Kigali, has no well-armed Presidential guard to help out with dues collection...
...more talking back and forth, a need to reach out to each other more," an official observed. "It is probably a natural reaction to stress and adversity coming from outside." The stress cannot have been helped by the President's having to fire Nussbaum, his wife's early mentor, or invite a special prosecutor to interrogate her closest allies...
...physical ability to compete by giving a bone-marrow transplant last Jan. 11 to her brother Jason, gravely ill with aplastic anemia. Luger Cammy Myler, already chagrined at the dislocated shoulder last September that dimmed her medal chances, felt her injury diminish in meaning when her brother and sporting mentor Tim was hospitalized for potentially fatal colon cancer...
...learned how to feed my children -- how to fix a healthy meal and not feed them hot dogs and beans all the time," says Holland. "I learned you don't have to spank them; you can just talk to them." A woman named Michelle Nielsen became her mentor. "I'd take her to the store or to a prenatal class," says Nielsen. "We talked a lot about God and church...