Word: mold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your article on Radcliffe's Mary Bunting [Nov. 3] was most refreshing. After years of the beat and bored generation, the fact that someone could be passionately fond of anything or find something of consuming interest convinces me that Americans are once more ready to mold their fate enthusiastically rather than to deplore it in self-pity...
Copied widely, Kiplinger's letters and their imitators have set into a mold that combines forecast of trends with bite-size gobbets of news chopped to fit the busy businessman's crowded schedule. "Kiplinger does for the executive," says Bernard Gallagher, "what the Reader's Digest does for the peasant." Much newsletter forecasting is done in the vague language of fortunetellers, and no newsletter turns out the double-edged style, the wise guess that can be read both ways, more assiduously than Kiplinger's Washington Letter...
DAVID V. TIEDMAN, professor of education, will be chairman of a panel discussion of "Factors Which Mold Women's Careers" in the Loeb...
...Will Bury." Cubans were prepared to believe the underground. Since taking power, Castro has worked tirelessly to mold his nation's youth into loyal-and militant-Communist cadres. Reading primers assure that the first name youngsters learn to spell is Fidel or Raúl, that their first animal stories are set on collective farms, that their first bogeymen are Yanqui imperialists. With piping voices, Cuba's fourth-graders sing a jingle taught by their energetic teachers...
...year-old. the older man is a hero, a near-mythical character pressed from the rarest mold. But in the ultimate test, he turns out to be only human, and quite ready to bow to a tough opportunist. To the boy. the blow of disillusionment is shattering-and the impact on the reader is just as powerful...