Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will Harvard win the Eastern League swimming title for the first time since 1962? Will the Crimson compile its first undefeated season in 11 years? Can head coach Don Gambril mold his team into an Eastern swimming power in just two years...
What is Tito really up to? It is scarcely remembered now that at the time of his split with Stalin, Tito (now 80) was already an oldfashioned, authoritarian Communist in the Moscow mold. He began to pull Yugoslavia away from the Soviet model partly for economic reasons. While Moscow was wreaking its vengeance on Belgrade with a trade-crippling boycott, Tito discovered that the liberal reforms persuasively advocated by his brilliant lieutenant Milovan Djilas were not only popular inside Yugoslavia but also attracted badly needed sympathy-and aid-from the West...
Behavior is not a liquid that sets like Jell-O into the mold of a building. Yet all building implies some ordering of life. Fine spaces do not "happen"; they are designed, either by consensus over a span of years (like the town plan of San Gimignano in Tuscany) or else by the authoritative work of one man. There is no consensus of the first kind in America: witness the slurping tide of chaotic architectural mutants that passes for an urban experience in any U.S. city. So we are left with the individual architect as form giver: the responsibilities remain...
...himself, the barbed and beastly rationalist. The colloquies between patient and healer are of a high order; now and then they veer unexpectedly into a mad kind of comedy, as when he tells of the attempt of his socially ambitious stepmother and an inept dentist friend to mold a plastic death mask from his father's corpse, with the result that the old man goes to his grave lacking eyebrows...
...TRAGEDY of Lyndon Johnson fascinates Halberstam, so it fascinates us as well. Too easily we can forget that the far vaster tragedy was suffered--and is still being suffered--by the Vietnamese. Their tragedy was not, like Johnson's in the classical mold. Their own flaws and hubris (a word which threatens to repeat the rise of "chairman") did not cause their undoing. Like the antagonist in a twentieth-century novel by Kafka or Camus, their enemy is faceless, irrational and overpowering. The Vietnamese are the real-life counterparts of Joseph K. and Meursault; they attain nobility by resisting oppression...