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...approaches his profession. In a sport known for its individualism, McCurdy has developed a program that revolves around team unity and produces teams which can win dual meets, not superstars who rake in individual titles. And, as a result, during his 30-year tenure, the Harvard track mentor has consistently turned out teams whose successes surpass all expectations. In 1950, McCurdy's first year as the Crimson's assistant coach, a powerful squad from Yale ran away from everyone at the Heptagonals and the Big Three meet, while Harvard barely escaped the cellar. But three years later, under McCurdy...
...begins in 1938, when "Oppie," as his friends called him, was teaching theoretical physics at the University of California at Berkeley. Only 34, he had brought together perhaps the most brilliant team of young physicists in the world-the Oppenheimers, as they were known on campus. They worshiped their mentor, imitated him and worked endless hours with him exploring the new frontier of atomic physics. One of the significant accomplishments of the series is that it conveys to nonscientists the elusive quality of scientific passion. And one of the accomplishments of Sam Waterston, who plays the lead, is that...
...beginning of his career, says Dugger, Johnson was a fawning sycophant on the lookout for a useful mentor. He used his role as editor of the campus paper at Southwest Texas State Teachers College to flatter the school's president, who had made Johnson his assistant. Winning a Senate seat in 1948 by 87 votes out of nearly 1 million cast, "Landslide Lyndon" set about cultivating Georgia's powerful Richard Russell. He would invite Russell to dinner and coach his daughters to call the man Uncle Dick. That campaign paid off. When Russell was in line to become...
After the relay, the jubilant runners surrounded their mentor and hosted him upon their shoulders chanting, "McCurdy, McCurdy." The coach's grin soon faded once he realized that his charges were leading straight for the steeplecase water jump. After being dumped into the water, McCurdy led the squad in a victory lap as the chanting continued...
...aides inadequate guidance on handling those problems to which he is not devoting his efforts. Indeed, the broadest charge against Haig also reflects his greatest strength: he is a doer rather than a thinker. He is a man of action who learned the operational skills of diplomacy from his mentor in the Nixon Administration, Henry Kissinger, but who basically lacks Kissinger's vision of global strategy. In this sense, his epic shuttle showed him both at his strongest-striving to mediate an explosive confrontation-and at his weakest, because he was not home minding the global aspects...