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...when his father finally gave in to his insistent artistic aspirations, Edgar-Hilaire-Germain de Gas (who, spurning the aristocratic connotations of the original, later changed his name to Degas) sought out his revered mentor. He asked Ingres what he should do to become a great painter, as if such advice could be capsulized into a brief rejoinder. But Ingres, never at a loss for a fast and memorable answer to bottomless questions like this, told Degas simply: "Draw lines, young man, many lines, from memory or from nature; it is in this way that you will become a good...
...third time this winter, Harvard triumphed in front of a boob-tube audience. For the first time ever, Bill Cleary won his 100th game as Crimson mentor (plus a cake to go), and Tim Taylor returned to Cambridge as Yale's new hockey coach and did as well as Yale's old hockey coach...
Sakharov's top-secret assignment also included research on industrial uses for thermonuclear energy with Mentor Tamm. There was little life but science-and the mandatory state "supervision" that went with it. For all of the 18 years (1950-68) that he held his top-level security clearance, Sakharov was never without the shadow of a bodyguard, even when he slept or went swimming. There were, however, compensations. He won the Stalin Prize and was thrice awarded the country's highest civilian medal, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He was the youngest member ever elected...
JUDGING BY THE works in the exhibit, Dr. Sackler and his mentor, Professor Wen Fong, are connoisseurs par excellence. Each painting is a distilled essence, a jewel, a flower alone; each, by its particular excellence, isolates the viewer in a moment and place containing nothing but this eye and that painting. Artistic statement on paper becomes not only legible, in a calligraphic sense, but tangible. The bamboo leaves in groups of three in Tao'chi's work, "Orchid, Bamboo and Rock," form the ancient character "Ko" meaning bamboo--the painting is also a sort of poem. Cha Shih Piao...
...from the very earliest essays she wrote at the Lycee for her intellectual mentor, the philosopher Alain, Weil had stressed the conviction that to make her life worthwhile--to not "waste death," as she once put it--she would have to exert her Will against the seemingly infinite limitations that life presented (her own frail body, her recurring headaches, the constraints on social and political change in her lifetime). This doctrine of Will seems to have provided a mission and to have met her psychological and emotional need for expectation, devotion and objective response...