Word: mold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free nation whose moral flesh has become soft with disuse and fat with self flattery, a Great Man has a special role. More than the leader who would direct us, or the philosopher who would admonish us, he must be a man in whose image we would mold ourselves. To liberal Democrats during the 1950's, Adlai Stevenson served as the Philosopher-Would-be-King--a symbol and promise of the once and future Republic...
...compared with his relentlessly energetic predecessor, Chairman Charles Percy, who is now running for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois after having built the movie-equipment maker from $13 million to $148 million in yearly sales. The two men, long tennis-playing pals, are cast in the same mold, but Peterson is if anything a shade more cerebral than his former boss. An advertising expert who has also taught marketing at the University of Chicago, Peterson was a vice president of McCann-Erickson by 27, moved to Bell & Howell as executive v.p. in 1958. He originated its series...
...being a karnaaina (oldtimer) and he loved Hawaii's traditions. He seldom appeared without an orchid in his lapel, and he was pleased that the women of his family learned to do the hula. Yet, for all his fondness for the old ways, Dillingham probably did more to mold a modern Hawaii than any other man. And when he died last week at 88, the islands mourned the loss of "Uncle Walter," who in a sense had been patriarch to a whole state...
When the Tories lost to Labor in 1945, Rab was picked to mold a forward-looking philosophy for the demoralized Conservatives. From the Tory research office, which consisted of two chairs and a desk when he took over, came a flow of pamphlets that reasserted the importance of the individual in a "property-owning democracy" and redefined Conservatism as a "policy of humanity and common sense." Almost as important to the party's future as his New Conservatism were "Rab's Boys," the bright young back-room protégés whom Butler enlisted to help formulate...
Point of View. Yale's 17th president fits no educator's conventional mold. In college, he rose to become chairman of the Daily News, but on Tap Day, when Yale juniors are selected for secret societies, a delegation from Skull & Bones searched for Brewster in vain, finally found him firmly seated on a basement toilet, from which perspective he declined membership. At the start of World War II, when Yale's President...