Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each of the University's training programs are designed to enable employees to progress to higher job, wage, and productivity levels. "The University doesn't want to force employees to remain in a mold for 30 years," Lee said. "Its concern is that it's making a better way of life for those who want...
...tames her will in obedience to her husband's just as she squeezes the extra flesh on her figure into a corset too tight. She practices unnatural posture to fluff out her husband's public pride, and she compromises the sticky edges of her personality to fit into his mold of ideal femininity. To wheedle money out of him, (she lacks, of course, an income of her own) she performs a child's trick of jumping up and down squealing like a partridge distraught. It is a disturbing picture--a woman denied her womanhood cannot grow up. So she resorts...
...movie admits no more than a turn of the century secret: Nora's education in a system of sexual power that admitted no equality has cast her identity in a mold of submission. But in conceding this so generously, the movie attaches a seventies' relevance to a decades' old truism...
Besides this winning tradition, the biggest thing Tom Sanders has going for him at Harvard is Tom Sanders. The soft-spoken NYU graduate is cut from an entirely different mold than his predecessor. According to everyone who has known him, he has always been able to communicate with young ballplayers...
During this lengthy period of inactivity, Butterfield developed further as an artist, all the while leaving himself susceptible to sundry criticisms from those who were comfortable only with the band's previous identity. Nevertheless, Butterfield returned to the recording studios, deviated from his jazz-blues mold, and unfolded a new-fledged band with an equally novel sound. The new Butterfield ensemble, Better Days, seems far from the explosive sound with which they were previously identified, but still uses the blues as a truly personal form of expression...