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...when Iriye came to Harvard as a graduate student. May eventually became his dissertation advisor. As an international student from Japan, Iriye said he sometimes struggled with writing in English, but May spent dozens of hours poring over Iriye’s dissertation line by line with his foreign pupil and even helped him write his conclusion when Iriye found himself pressed to finish by his deadline. Philip D. Zelikow—a student of May’s over 20 years after Iriye—said that while May’s lectures were “not flamboyant...
...life to studying Italian art.Berenson lingered in Europe well past his sponsored year, and when his pursuit of Italian painting led him to England in 1890, Berenson met Mary Smith Costelloe, who was married at the time with two young children. Costelloe followed Berenson to Florence as his pupil and lover. In 1900, a year after the death of her first husband, Costelloe married Berenson and the couple moved into I Tatti.APOGEE AND DEATHWidely regarded as the preeminent authority on Renaissance art, Berenson published several books on the Italian Renaissance and advised a number of museums and collectors...
...Amato, Tyson found the father he never had. "He broke me down and rebuilt me," Tyson says of his coach, who adopted him, raised him with the d'Amato family in the Catskills and gave the boy focus and purpose as a boxer. Tyson was an apt pupil: he obsessively studied old films of boxing legends, learned the spiritual side of the warrior mentality and, he says, "restrained myself from having sex for about five years." He tore through the amateur ranks, knocking out one opponent in a record eight seconds, and was heavyweight champ before...
...became the third point in a triangular test of wills. Unlike Tintoretto, who struggled to find his mature style, Veronese shot out of the box as a boy genius - but a shrewdly humble one. Let Tintoretto play the role of Titian's perennial antagonist. Veronese would be the admiring pupil. Titian returned the favor by promoting Veronese whenever he could, especially for commissions that Tintoretto might be after...
Before starting work, Rumpole fortifies himself with a full English breakfast at the Tastee Bite, a place of Formica-topped tables, fried food and steaming tea urns. His young pupil Phillida Trant chose this venue to confide that she was pregnant, and Hilda's friend Dodo once popped in just as Rumpole was demonstrating manual strangulation on another lady pupil, Liz Probert. The Tastee Bite is fictional, but Bailey's Café, at 30 Old Bailey, is a good spot to sample the kind of fry-up Rumpole would have enjoyed...