Word: mold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liberal Party of New York has a better alternative in Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. He has waged an indignant, fiery campaign against the Democratic bosses, and made some laudable suggestions for change. However, he lacks intellect, administrative ability, imagination, and power to mold public opinion, all of which Rockefeller has shown...
...tired of the student refrain that "Tech is hell," has similarly loosened its freshman and sophomore course load, broken up its long-standard curriculum. "In the past, if a fellow was too short we stretched him, and if he was too long we shrank him-now we try to mold the system around the class," says Physics Professor George Valley...
...MacLean's The Guns of Navarone and H.M.S. Ulysses would have done. They were tightlipped, quietly efficient men who were repelled by heroics, and obviously wanted nothing more than peace and quiet after their hazardous call to duty ended. In this book, however, MacLean has smashed the mold. Secret Agent Philip Calvert, his new hero, must have got his basic training by watching James Bond movies. Calvert is simply too incredibly dumb to be taken seriously. Assigned to track down pirates in the Irish Sea, Calvert stumbles on the gang right away. But instead of sensibly going for help...
Senator Jimmy Carter, 41, a moderate in the Arnall mold, who had so meager a pre-primary following that people habitually referred to him as "Jimmy Who?" As it turned out, the Arnall-Carter brand of rational race relations pulled a total of 365,000 votes, 25,000 more than Maddox and two other ardent white supremacists could raise between them...
...brightest, slickest comedy of the opening week was The Hero (NBC), out of the same shop and mold as last season's hit, Get Smart. Richard Mulligan is cast as an actor who is cast as an actor in a TV western series. In real life he is a suburban dude and a sort of all-round schlemiel. Between (and sometimes during) takes, he is horse-shy, allergic to sagebrush, and as rugged as Mr. Peepers. But the sight gags are inventive, and the dialogue is literate. The only other situation comedy worth a twirl is That Girl...