For the rest of the year, with the savvy of a former ad man, he would devote himself to promoting his work; he reportedly hired skywriters to scribble "Jessica" across the sky, and persuaded Penguin to hire actors to pose on trains reading his novels.
The paradigmatic individual — the benevolent person (ren ren) — is one who devotes himself to "promoting the benefit of and eliminating harm to the world".
Mr. Frankel, who began booking and promoting concerts in the 1950s, devoted himself to the business full time after his radio show was canceled.
In the decade after that she devoted herself to promoting female artists of all kinds.
After Hans died, in 1977, Margret devoted herself to promoting the Curious George brand, overseeing all licensing deals, film options, and television rights.
Meanwhile, in 1916, he had met another wealthy painter, Emmy Esther Scheyer, who soon devoted herself to promoting his work in the United States, especially on the West Coast.
In the girls' room, by contrast, the walls are yellow, the light bulbs emit a warm yellow light and the temperature is kept six degrees warmer, as per the instructions of Leonard Sax, a family physician turned author and advocate who this May will quit his medical practice to devote himself full time to promoting single-sex public education.
At the same time Sugrue, a historian at the University of Pennsylvania, recounts the struggles of those, many long forgotten, who devoted themselves to promoting racial equality.
The prevention efforts are continuing but, on Congress's mandate, they are being given a new emphasis on abstinence, with $86 million devoted this year to promoting abstinence.
