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
Chaplin was sharing a table with Russian aristocrats and violinist Jascha Heifetz and saw Julian and his buddies kick over a lamp and generally behave like ruffians.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
I was a boy of twelve," he said, "when I heard Jascha Heifetz play for the first time.
From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Frederick Herman Martens
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