Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate is tense. He is not getting his point across to a listener. Finally he interrupts the questions. "Is it a liberal program? Is it a conservative program? It's my program. I'm consistent with myself. I don't have to fit some predetermined mold...
Largely because he has refused to fit someone else's predetermined mold, Edmund G. ("Jerry") Brown Jr., a Democrat who sometimes sounds like a Republican, is the favorite to win the Nov. 5 election and succeed Ronald Reagan as Governor of California. In any circumstances, Brown would be a strikingly unusual candidate, points out TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan. A tense and introverted intellectual, Brown spent four years in a Jesuit seminary ("It concentrates your thinking," he says with a half-smile) and cracks jokes in Latin for his press entourage. He has been a follower of Eugene McCarthy...
...Madrid notes set down the method in full detail. He invented a revolutionary system of doing it in one piece, designing special furnaces and bracing systems and winches for it, and even a way of casting it buried upside down in the marshy Milanese soil without cracking the mold. It becomes clear that Leonardo, despite Michelangelo's bitching about his ineptitude as a sculptor, knew exactly how to make the horse and was prevented from executing his plan only because, in the end, he had no bronze: it had all been requisitioned for cannon against the French...
Shakespeare was repeatedly showing off. There are numerous setpieces that, while lovely poetry in themselves, impede the dramatic flow. And he imposes on his dialogue a number of traditional forms from outside the theater. For instance, the lovers' first meeting is cast in the mold of one complete Elizabethan sonnet and part of a second; their postnuptial parting is a Provencal alba (which the Bard may have known through Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and which reaches its peak of effectiveness in the second act of the aforementioned Tristan); Juliet declaims a Classical epithalamium; and Paris delivers an elegy...
Even some prominent Enarques have doubts about the school. Says Jean Saint-Geours ('49), head of the state-owned Credit Lyonnais Bank: "It is bad for a diversified modern nation like France to be governed by people all formed in the same mold. E.N.A. graduates are brilliant, no doubt about it, but they've not worked much in factories or sold many ties in the street." Which could be useful experience for the truly well-rounded student bureaucrat...