Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third function of a living mythology is to support the social order through rites and rituals that will impress and mold the young. In India, for example, the basic myth is that of an impersonal power, Brahma, that embodies the universe. The laws of caste are regarded as inherent features of this universe and are accepted and obeyed from childhood. Cruel as this may seem to Westerners, the myth of caste does give Indian society a stability it might otherwise lack and does make life bearable to the impoverished low castes...
...elusiveness, as well as "tha∧t l∧something that can't be taught: the knack of picking and cutting his way through! the line." Moore is "one of the most graceful big men you'll ever see, a real high-stepper, a streaker in the mold of O.J. Simpson." He has the speed (4.5 sec. in the 40-yd. dash) to break away for the long gainer and the sure hands that may prompt the pros to switch him to wide receiver. Other runners admired by scouts are Jeff Kinney, Nebraska...
...influence of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, himself a noted collector of kachina dolls. While Brooks had meant to sell 5,100 of the bottles in Arizona, the distillers agreed to stop at the 2,000 bottles already shipped; with the company's cooperation, Goldwater personally shattered the mold from which the bottles had been made. With that the dictates of religious sensibility gave way to the laws of supply and demand. Their rarity guaranteed, the Brooks kachinas have become an Arizona collectors' item...
...Operations Elmo Zumwalt Jr. and Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland-who would have preferred someone else in the top Marine slot. The popular choice in the Pentagon for the job was Marine Chief of Staff Lieut. General John R. Chaisson, 55. Something of a Renaissance officer in the mold of Zumwalt, Harvard-educated Chaisson is a brilliant speaker and a tough-minded intellectual whose interests range far beyond the boundaries of military thought...
...Russia. Czars Alexander I and Nicholas I regularly branded as insane men who wrote and spoke out for individual liberties. Politically bent mental clinics have been operating widely in the U.S.S.R. since the early '20s. Today, compulsory outpatient care for persons who do not fit the official mold often includes heavy doses of tranquilizing drugs. The Soviets have no corner on abusive psychiatry, however. As Dr. Thomas Szasz pointed out in his book The Manufacture of Madness (Harper & Row, 1970), unnecessary incarceration, forced therapy and denial of legal rights are common in the United States. The enormous difference, constitutional...