Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...working-class point of view. It's true that most lecturers aren't paid well, if at all. But there are notable exceptions, mainly those people who are regulars on the lecture circuit-- people like Ralph Nader. Galbraith, comfortably enconsced in his Gstaad chalet, doesn't fit; this mold either...
...Rainbow) other cultures (The King and I), utopia found and lost (Camelot) and the Nazi rise to power (Cabaret). It was good, workmanlike entertainment, done with zeal and finesse, an enjoyable evening with drinks before and dessert after. The Kirkland House production of The Fantasticks is cast in this mold and wavers tantalizingly close to success by its standards...
...freeholds, of solicitors and stamp duty." Chatter like that is enough to give solipsism a good name. Yet such lapses are the accidental by-products of an interesting and impressive experiment. A champion and biographer of Arnold Bennett, Drabble has produced an argumentative novel very much in the oratorical mold favored by Bennett and his contemporaries. When she wants a point emphasized or a warning heeded, she consciously resorts to long-outmoded fictional devices: the interpolated essay and the abrupt dismissal of characters who no longer serve her purpose...
Neither, for that matter, was the crowd, which had seen Harvard drop five in a row at home and which seemed a bit confused, in the best it's-too-good-to-be-true, so-it-can't-be-happening mold, when the Crimson jumped off to three quick touch-downs. Reality, at first, was too good to be real...
...years ago the government told the school it couldn't call its team the Indians anymore. The bigwigs in Hanover were forced to change the nickname. First it was the Big Green. Gross. With a name like that it sounds like the team's three big stars would be Mold, Mildew and Mucus...