Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...piano and developed an enduring passion for Bach. For years afterward he would relax by playing the partitas. He found himself fascinated by such scholars as the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian emigre who saw ominous parallels between Nazism and Soviet Communism. Nitze shared that lesson with his mentor, Dillon, Read's president James Forrestal, who later became the nation's first -- and most obsessively anti- Communist -- Secretary of Defense. Forrestal brought Nitze to Washington to work for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. Ronald Reagan played George Gipp in Knute Rockne, All American that year, and Mikhail Gorbachev was nine...
...this, of course, he is utterly different from his mentor, Joseph Beuys, who taught him at the Dusseldorf Academy in the early '70s. Lecturing, performing, always accessible to the young (and the press), Beuys was the Pied Piper of postwar German esthetic renewal. One does not need to accept his message that everyone is some sort of artist to recognize his achievement in giving back to Kiefer's generation the vast fund of German imagery, the sense of the primordial and the ritual that had been corrupted, made almost radioactive, by Nazism. Thanks to Beuys, younger German artists were able...
...next mentor was Avant-Garde Composer Milton Babbitt. Sondheim, straight out of Williams, talked Babbitt into taking him on as a private pupil in structure and theory. He paid with money from a fellowship and stretched the funds by living in bohemian disorder in his father's dining room. Next he tried to break into show business. A few painful years of struggle -- scraping up auditions that led to more auditions, writing and rewriting a show that never got staged because the producer died, going out to Hollywood to write scripts for the TV sitcom Topper -- ended in triumph when...
...ever seen All About Eve, or even A Star is Born, then you already know the plot of Anna: aging actress takes fledgling actress under her wing: fledgling's subsequent rise parallels her mentor's fall...
What drives Wright, just as it drove his notable mentor, Lyndon Johnson, is the natural desire to be the most powerful Democrat in the capital. Since his party controls the Congress, he can, with adroit maneuvering, often play President, and then, who knows? As it did for L.B.J., history might propel him toward the Oval Office, a development that Wright would at least view with interest...