Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...held out stiffly in front of them. He teaches that the conductor is "a necessary evil" who can be crucial to the preparation and rehearsal of a score but should be as unobtrusive as possible in performance. Frequently he quotes the ironical advice of Strauss, who was his mentor: "Go up to the podium and don't disturb the orchestra...
...optimistic Harvard Coach Bill McCurdy? Guess again. Those words belong to Yale mentor Bob Giegengack, forecasting the results of tomorrow's Big Three indoor track meet at New Haven...
While it is fairly certain that Portfolio will join the Harvard staff for the spring semester, no one seems to have any idea exactly where the vaunted mentor's multitude talents will be allocated...
Distracter. Under Wieland's tutelage, Silja appeared in 33 productions. Still, as long as she played Galatea to Wieland's Pygmalion, many listeners regarded her as an extension of her mentor. Now, however, she is making it handsomely on her own-but not at Bayreuth. Soon after Wieland's death in 1966, his widow fired Anja on the grounds that her miniskirts were "distracting the personnel...
Most interns agree on the value of close association with experienced administrators. Billy Mac Jones, special assistant to the president of tiny Angelo State College in Texas, reviews issues at the University of Colorado with his mentor, Student Affairs Vice President Glenn Barnett, then bets him a Coca-Cola on the outcome. After ten weeks of forecasting, Jones is only two Cokes in the hole. Janczewski thinks of himself as "a working member of the provost's department," but echoes a majority of his fellow interns when he admits: "I can make mistakes for which I am not responsible...