Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Power and Discipline. Tsatsos, a conservative intellectual and gifted speechwriter who has turned his talents loyally to Caramanlis' New Democracy Party, is expected to press Caramanlis' policies while the Premier stays on in Parliament to mold the party's power and discipline. Then, perhaps a year from now, Tsatsos is expected to resign his five-year term, allowing the New Democracy majority in Parliament to elect Caramanlis to the office...
...fairly long-time resident in a wealthy hidden-away province, southwest of the city. Randall represents the interests of a small faction of older alumni interested in restoring some element of "clubbiness" to Philadelphian graduates. Randall sees the present club's chieftains--who do a great deal to mold the policies of the alumni in the city--as a looseknit, often too business-like group of younger turks who believe the club's only duty is soliciting new membership dues...
...recommending students they would like to see as later leaders of the nation after graduation. "Harvard is not a ticket to anything." Randall insists, "and sending someone there does not necessarily mean you're doing the best thing for the student." Simpson concurs: "We don't try to mold anybody," in the recruiting or interviewing process...
...didn't exist. He was, in a sense, fooling himself and, of course, fooling everyone else. But all of us--the readers, the newspaper which published his story, and myself, the person who wrote the story--were willing collaborators in the scheme to shove Robin Starling into an acceptable mold. We were all fooling ourselves...
...seeing the true nature of the world. And if we can be fooled about the world, we can be fooled about ourselves. If we can be talked into pursuing goals that have nothing to do with our ideals, them we can be talked into thinking that falling into the mold leaves us, like Robin, somehow less abandoned...