Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maestro had been getting set for his one opera broadcast of the year. He had hand-picked his singers, rehearsed them relentlessly in his dressing room, accompanying them on the piano himself. There were few big bright names in his cast-he preferred to use singers he could mold in his own way: stressing first expressiveness, then diction, and lastly voice. He had heard the Philadelphia La Scala Soprano Herva Nelli sing last summer, and announced, "This is Desdemona." She told him she had never sung the role. Toscanini snapped: "Good. I'll teach you myself." He drilled...
...attitudes. But a name is legend, nothing more; the student is the meaning, the living organism that passes on the ideas and the morality current in Cambridge. The worth of the College is the worth of its graduates, fresh-escaped from their four-year imprisonment in the mold. Who they were when they first saw the Square, how they got here, what exactly is the unformed Freshman medium--that is the subject of College Scene Number II. After that comes the deluge of influences: the sticks and stones of academic and social and moral forces...
...work together is the focal point of most of its official programs. As soon as the downy-cheeked freshman first sets foot on the Hanover campus, he is prompted to mingle with his classmates. His quarters are spacious but purposely drab, so that he will be discouraged from gathering mold over his books in scholarly isolation. The result is that the average Dartmouth man knows at least 200 of his fellows well enough to carry a conversation past the weather and Saturday football stages. Another result is that he is likely to be a well-adjusted, sociable citizen...
Does an ugly face or a disfigured body help to mold an ugly character? From Homer on, poets and novelists have so contended. Some psychiatrists agree...
Line coach Stephen P. Sinko worked under Donelli at Duquesne and helped him mold his famous unbeaten 1941 eleven. During 1944-45 he coached at Iowa Pre-Flight, returning to Duquesne last year as head coach and athletic director...