Word: mold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't really matter that much anyway. The petition provides a convenient issue for approaching people, but a Vietnam hearing is only the secondary goal of the CNC. The prime purpose is to activate politically anti-war Cambridge citizens, and mold them into an effective bloc. As Walzer puts it, "We want to stir up as many people as possible...
...behavior of the atom, the dance of heated particles, the orbit of the stars-then, say the structuralists, order must exist everywhere, even in the brain. Just as the law of gravity determined the fall of Newton's apple, so the laws of the intellect imperiously mold human thought...
...success of his performance. First, Cocteau believed as firmly as any Method actor in the truth of his role as an artist. Romantically convinced that the artist is the medium, he approached the novel, drama, painting, ballet and, finally, cinema, as if each art were merely another form or mold for his personal "poetry," and he did not so much study each new form as pour himself into...
...create dry land from marshes and shallow tidal water; New York's La Guardia Airport is only one famous landmark that was built on refuse. Now Virginia Beach, Va., wants to see if it can turn its trash into a verdant natural stadium, using the leftovers to mold hills for children to play...
Lutes to Lumia. For all its science-fiction appeal, the use of light in art is not exactly new; all art depends on light in one way or another. Light rays mold the light and shadows on the surfaces of sculpture, reflect from pigments to give the eye its impression of form and color. But in traditional art, color is constant, not kinetic. And even the purest oil or watercolor pigments inevitably reflect not pure color, but a mixture of colors. The present-day luminist's dream of both movement and purity has had to await the 20th century...