Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Marshal Adelbert Ames started the Class Day off by introducing John W. Sullivan to the audience of 700 undergraduates and friends. "We are determined to shape the future by our own actions today. We shall take tomorrow in our strong hands and mold it to our own will." But he pointed out that "Idealism alone does not explain this will of ours; a clear sense of patriot self-interest is just as important. The dread of futility turns our minds to postwar planning. Though we have no specific details in mind, there are certain general principles on which most...
...would take a master to mold these diverse elements into a cohesive story. At times able director McCarey seems close to doing it. In the opening sequences the scenes vibrate with the same effervescent youthfulness that the leads are able to exude. But when the complications set in, the whole thing misses the boat. At the fantastic, Wellsian climax, the audience is left with the feeling that Naziism should be left to the tragedians, and that future attempts at comedy should content themselves with less world-shaking themes...
...tone of the issue is one of lightness in a time of trouble. In the past this column has criticized the Advocate for a lack of material on the topic of immediacy, war. But now that the struggle has become so integral a part of our psychology attempts to mold it to the literary form seem strained, and what formerly might have been mere frivolity is at present a refreshing excursion...
From the Detroit Free Press came the words most typical of the nation's attitude: "You are wrong about that 'final verdict,' Senator Norris. There is never anything 'final' about the lives of men of your heroic mold. You say, 'God knows, I've tried to do the job.' Millions know how magnificently you succeeded...
When minimum space has been devoted by the press to a speech by the Vice-President of the United States, and when that speech concerns relationships with one of our staunchest allies, thoughts which might mold the future are being black-penciled by the hand of complacency. Two nights ago, Henry A Wallace spoke courageously and objectively to a group of Americans, correlating the aims of Soviet Russia with the basic principles of democracy we have bruited abroad fro decades. But Walface's post-war implications will be discounted by the majority of the American people, only partially because...