Word: mold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concierges of Paris, like French shopgirls, come from a single mold. But where shopgirls are uniformly stocky, black-haired, pertly dark-eyed and, no matter how unpretty, filled with a lively charm, concierges have pulled-back hair, grey skin and grey souls. The typical concierge wears round-frame glasses, black stockings, a shapeless dress and old felt slippers, and, in the profane opinion of most Parisians, is rude, inquisitive, grasping, lazy, and brimming with malign gossip...
...also something more than the mere sum of his praise and criticism. He is a throwback to the classic American individualist, a mold which produced Thomas Edison and Thoreau-men with the fresh eye that cannot be done. What Fuller sees excites him with the vision of man's potentialities, and he has made it his mission to help man to realize them. Says he: "Man knows so much and does so little." Last week this crackpot stepped off the plane in London, spouting words the minute his feet touched ground, and headed for a dinner in his honor...
Also at issue is a two-year-old student petition for weekday parietal hours. In an editorial Tuesday, the Justice, the Brandeis student weekly, said the petition had turned into a "plaque of mold" and called for liberalization of the rules...
...Life & Death. Capralos sculpts with flat sheets of wax, folded and kneaded. Bolstered by armatures, the wax sometimes bellies out like breastplates, sometimes ripples like drapery in a breeze. He builds a mold around the wax with brick dust and melts out the wax. When the molten bronze pours in, the fluid planes of the sculpture retain in lustrous metal the quickening touch of the artist's hands. Capralos also makes minuscule bronzes, some no more than three inches high, which have the pulpy look of ancient artifacts dug up after centuries. Some are whimsical toys others complex hieroglyphs...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government: It is a terrible tragedy for the country and for the world. He was a man cast in the heroic mold, who touched the nerve of comradeship and won the trust and respect of all who knew...