He told the apprentice about the first gold mines in Egypt and Nubia, about the uses of gold in medicine and science, gold for food and gold for the gods, of the gold waiting in the vast oceans, and then, when he had told him the first 78 secrets of gold, he told him the 79th.
The Acrobats and his next book, Son Of A Smaller Hero (1955), were rites of passage, apprentice novels about the tribulations involved in being an expatriate writer; but The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz was anything but an apprentice novel.
It was a film that began in anecdotal blitheness, talking to ancient cabbies and apprentice ones about the trade, and the merciless discipline needed to acquiring the Knowledge.
As they walked the old man asked the apprentice about himself.
Bijou Phillips, Mr. Hudson, Tara Lipinski, and Nick Warnock from "The Apprentice" milled about, and Ms. Malone retreated to a corner.
A not-so-funny comedy of errors occurs when Will, the alchemist's abused apprentice, about to make a delivery of a wooden box to the powerful Lady Premiere, is warned by his evil master: "Do not stop for anyone.
He consequently sought the security of a solid craftsman's training and became apprenticed, at about the age of 15, to a silversmith.
First-year union apprentices earn about the same amount that most college students pay for a year's tuition.
Rubens's most talented assistant was the young Anthony van Dyck, 22 years his junior, who arrived at his studio as an apprentice about 1616 and stayed for four years.
New character Peter, who becomes Tiffany's apprentice – about time after a woman wanted to be a wizard in Discworld Book 4 – is too frustratingly nice; his saccharine flawlessness eventually grated with me.
To find out why people train later on in life, we spoke to four apprentices – and former apprentices – about why they took the risk and what the results have been.
