Word: protegee
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Wolfe had become disillusioned with Baker by this time, although the professor had made Wolfe his protege. Wolfe later described Baker, as a shallow man who used nothing but "glib and easy jargon.
Enter Dowson, a onetime R. A.F. pilot, Tupelo, Miss, disk jockey and Davis protege, whom Sir John last October promoted from deputy chief to chief executive. Dowson rapidly concluded he would never have real authority as long as Sir John was around. Finding himself unable to challenge Davis in a...
After Oxford, Clark became a protege of the art collector and critic Bernard Berenson. (His devastating vignette of B.B. in these pages is a small classic by itself.) Before he was 30 he had been appointed director of the National Gallery, and was on his way to becoming Lord Clark...
For Butley, of course, is a one-man show. That a day in the life of a lecturer at the University of London should be so successfully transformed into theater is not too surprising--like all good academic comedians. Butley is a showman, a constant performer, whose glory on the...
Oki Toshio, a successful but somewhat lonely novelist in his tifties, decides to visit one of the loves of his youth. Ueno Otoko. This visit awakens feelings of passion and remorse that had lain dormant through the 24 years since their separation; he had deserted the 16-year-old Otoko...