Word: mentored
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...roots of the debate between Chalmers and Dennett--the debate over how mysterious mind is or isn't--lie in the work of Dennett's mentor at Oxford University, Gilbert Ryle. In 1949 Ryle published a landmark book called The Concept of Mind. It resoundingly dismissed the idea of a human soul--a "ghost in the machine," as Ryle derisively put it--as a hangover from prescientific thought. Ryle's juiciest target was the sort of soul imagined back in the 17th century by Rene Descartes: an immaterial, somewhat autonomous soul that steers the body through life. But the book...
Watkins took the reprimand with aplomb, but Foster seemed stunned. In all their years together, years in which he had so often acted as Hillary's mentor and protector, she had never spoken to him like this. The encounter drove home the fact that he was now working for her; he almost invariably referred to Hillary, but not Bill, as "the client." He shouldered all the blame for the leaked incident involving the smashed lamp. His job was to protect the President and the First Lady, and in this instance he had failed them...
...Galindo had much more to deal with than himself. His pairs coach, Jim Hulick, had already died of AIDS, and his next mentor, Rick Inglesi, also became stricken with the disease. (He died last year.) Jess Galindo eventually succumbed to a heart attack in 1993. Finally, Rudy's brother George, 10 years his senior, contracted AIDS. The period before George's death, also in 1993, was a parlous time for Galindo. "For eight months, I drove George to the hospital every day," he says. "I carried him to the bath and changed his diapers. I got numb...
...obsession with a young patient, Homes shows a knack for intertwining two characters' pathologies. In Alice she has created a compelling ally for the pedophile, a 19-year old girl with a lust for prepubescent boys who sends him letters in prison recounting her seductions. The girl wants a mentor. Homes unsettles best when she limns this tennis-playing coed's unusual urges...
...then news imitated art: the networks created their own lower-wattage Redfords in Brokaw, Jennings, Stone Phillips. And now, when Redford finally gets into a TV-news movie, he's nearly 60, too old to begin a career as anchor. His job in Up Close and Personal is to mentor the promising rookie played by Michelle Pfeiffer...