Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...valleys outside Florence. Legend says the country boy tending his flocks was discovered by the painter Cimabue, who saw him draw a fine sheep upon a rock. A more likely tale has him haunting Cimabue's Florentine bottega until the painter made him an apprentice. There Giotto absorbed his mentor's strength of drawing and sense of drama, but nature was his true teacher. He divined how to depict, with brush and pigment, the human body according to the prescription of St. Francis: "Your God is of your flesh. He lives in your nearest neighbor, in every...
...absence of such a mentor, the 25-year-old Rocker has, in just his second year, made himself the most quoted baseball player this side of Yogi Berra. He's also self-destructed...
...spread Coca-Cola around the world. An accountant by training, with an eight-day-a-week work ethic, Ivester predicted a decade ago that he would be chairman and CEO of Coke by Nov. 1, 1998. He beat that brash forecast by a year when Roberto Goizueta, his charismatic mentor and predecessor, died suddenly of lung cancer in October...
...play called In Between O'Clock by Michael Ragozzino 01. I read it in one blast (now if only I could do that with my other reading) It's a wicked little existential story with a fantastic lead role (Mike wrote the play as an independent study with mentor Adrienne Kennedy, award-winning playwright and Harvard professor) and I'm entirely curious as to how something so thoughtful on page will effectively reach an audience. Oooooh. Ohhhhhh. The buzz is hot, I thought. I approached Mike and played it cool and casually asked if he needed any help producing...
During the day, in between the classes that Layton officially teaches, he observes his mentor-teacher, prepares lesson plans and meets with students...