Word: mentoring
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...masterly feel for interpretation that allows his performances to breathe with an almost jazzlike spontaneity. "Yo-Yo has an ease of playing that is given to very few. It is a kind of mastery that gives one the greatest possible freedom," says violinist Isaac Stern, a onetime mentor of Ma's. "He is probably the most perfect instrumentalist I have ever seen," says Ax. "I spend hours and hours practicing every day. Yo-Yo can afford to sleep late and have lunch, and he still plays much more perfectly than...
Collected Stories, a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, is about a mentor-protege relationship between two women writers. Ruth Steiner (Deborah Kipp), a middle-aged writer living in Greenwich Village, takes on the overeager graduate student Lisa Morrison (Felicity Jones) as her assistant and tutee. Lisa is awed by the impressive Ruth, who has published a respected body of short stories and who embodies a long-standing New York literary tradition Though Lisa starts out as an insecure chatterbox, both women soon emerge as uniquely witty, charming personalities. Their interaction provides plenty of sparkling, funny dialogue, especially about...
...different person, a challenge which Jones handles gracefully. Her transition from a fawning grad-student with a teddy-bear backpack to an accomplished writer giving a speech at the 92nd St. Y is both striking and fluid. Jones' performance adeptly displays the conflict between Lisa's love for her mentor and her need to establish her own life as a writer...
...eventually, the Weekly Newsmagazine matured into an American institution, mentor to the questing middle class, keeper of a certain American self-image and expectation--America's superego, the child of Henry Luce, a presence infuriating to many but undeniably a force...
...said was often brilliant. "Other students would turn to her and say, 'O.K., Gayl, what's the answer?' She always had the answer," remembers her 11th-grade English teacher, Sue Ann Allen. Gayl came to the attention of the Lexington-born poet Elizabeth Hardwick, who became an early mentor and arranged for a college scholarship. But as an adult Gayl resisted most offers of friendship. In Ann Arbor, she lived like a nun, alone in a threadbare apartment behind a grocery store...