Heifetz
Americannoun
noun
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Heifetz is grounded in her decision by a central tenet of Earthseed, the fictional religion Butler constructs in “Parable of the Sower.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Sinatra famously studied jazz and popular singers like Crosby and Billie Holiday and musicians like Tommy Dorsey as a young man, but also classical virtuosos like Jascha Heifetz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
As the management guru Ronald Heifetz put it brilliantly: “What people resist is not change per se, but loss.”
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2023
Giveaway: This event included the book club’s first book giveaway, made possible with a donation from the estate of Octavia E. Butler and literary agent Merrilee Heifetz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023
Stood up and fought Karlov with his bare fists; wasn't ashamed to weep over his mother's photograph; and fiddled like Heifetz.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by MacGrath, Harold
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