Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson mentor Joe Bernal stated yesterday, "We needed to shave to beat Indiana, and I have no regrets about that decision." Perhaps Bernal overestimated Harvard's ability to rebound from this first shave, but that was a gamble, perhaps well-taken. And as any confirmed blackjack player will tell you, the high-risk, well-planned strategy is the only one to take...
...Robbins does not miss the panic that comes with working on a musical when time and money are running out. "It's like those descriptions of galaxies spinning apart," he says. "Everyone is going a million miles an hour in opposite directions." His opinion is shared by his mentor, Balanchine, who once created dances for musicals (including the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue ballet for Rodgers and Hart's 1936 On Your Toes) but has not been back to Broadway in nearly 30 years...
...perfect situation for us," Princeton mentor Orr recounts. "We were coming off of exams, when we can't demand as much of our kids in practice as we usually do, and we thought that, if we played it just right, we could pull...
...should judge Harvard not on its political actions, but on its educational ones. If one accepts for the moment his contention that politics and education are separable, how well then does Harvard educate its students? I have met few students satisfied with their Harvard education. Most long for a mentor, dream wistfully about intellectual excitement or exchange. Many cannot quite conquer the sense of guilt about receiving a good grade for a course they learned two days before the final exam. A history professor once described to me his frustration about the "missing" students here, the ones who get gentlemen...
With the help of friend and mentor Producer Daniel Melnick, her rise has been little short of meteoric. By 1975 she was an executive story editor at MGM, and two years later vice president of production for Columbia Pictures. Aside from intelligence and raven-haired beauty, Lansing's prime asset is her youth, at least according to Fox Vice Chairman Alan Hirschfield, her former Columbia boss, who hired her. Says he: "The movie audience is still trending down in age; 60% of it is between the ages of 14 and 24. Sherry can attract the younger creative moviemakers...