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...courage, the other healthy but panicky, guilty and increasingly unable to cope. The healthy lover works at the same courthouse as a religious Mormon law clerk: despite good intentions and political ambitions, the Mormon is rapidly losing a lifelong battle to suppress his own homosexual urges. His mentor is Roy Cohn, the right-wing dealmaker who promiscuously savored homosexual sex but vehemently denied a gay identity right up to the moment of his death from AIDS...
...began to buy in earnest, first through his friend the American painter William Glackens, and then during his own trips to Paris. His main aesthetic guide in collecting was art critic Leo Stein, Gertrude's brother. His intellectual mentor was the educator John Dewey, whose book Democracy and Education formed his ideas about education for "the masses" through art. After 1918, Barnes' acquisitions became obsessive. His biggest spree was in the early '20s, when he went charging through Paris waving his checkbook (earning the disapproval of Gertrude Stein, who thought him vulgar) and haggling like a mule trader. The postwar...
...authors cite the examples of a woman whose clients were reassigned to others only because she announced she was having a baby and another who was told by a male mentor, "Take my advice. Don't take your whole maternity leave. Not if you want to keep your job." Several women had their babies on Friday and returned to work on Monday for fear their standing at work would be jeopardized. One lawyer who took four months off was greeted upon her return with a monthly billing report highlighting a $40,000 loss in income because of her absence...
...Rudnick had that self-image, he soon grew into it. A few years after graduation, he had his own off-Broadway play: Poor Little Lambs, an engaging pastiche about Yale's Whiffenpoof singers. Rudnick worked on a movie version (never filmed) and was eventually introduced to Rudin, his Hollywood mentor. "Over the years," Rudin says, "Paul has changed, in a really gratifying way. At the beginning, there was this sense that he was not fully committed to being a writer. It wasn't so much irresponsible as sort of slightly flaky...
That report made sweeping recommendations for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, including day care resources for junior faculty members, a call for a mentor system between non-tenured women professors and senior faculty members, and a strong push for more female senior and junior faculty in Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) science departments...