Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked on that movie was hell." Terrified of failure, imagining the final collapse of her career, she gave herself desperately to the role. "I knew I had the emotion. That's all I am, emotion. But I couldn't do Bobbie by myself. Mike had to mold me. And he did. I lived Bobbie day and night. I turned into the slob Bobbie is. Between takes I just sat in my dressing room and stared at the wall. When I got back to the hotel at night, I put on my bathrobe and walked back and forth...
Ellsberg is too complex a man to fit neatly any mold, even that of the insulated academic, so shocked at his first sight of a combat-torn body that he denounces war. Ellsberg's conversion was much more gradual?although, as with nearly everything he has done, once he had a change of mind he threw all of his spirit and intelligence into it, moving from one extreme to another. When he first saw combat in Viet Nam as a civilian pacification specialist, in fact, Ellsberg seemed to enjoy the experience. A reporter recalls hearing loud shouts...
HOWEVER hard he tries, a President can rarely mold the Supreme Court to his ideological image. Richard Nixon may be an exception. With the appointment of only two Justices, he has already helped to blunt the judicial revolution that began in 1954, when Earl Warren wrote the court's unanimous decision outlawing school segregation. That historic ruling was followed by scores of others involving race relations, voting, and capital punishment-many of them containing unprecedented guarantees of individual rights in America. Now, as the new Burger Court nears the end of its second term, it seems obvious that...
WHEN the search for a new Harvard football coach began in earnest last Fall, one member of the selection committee paused to consider the candidates before the committee and dead-panned, "I can tell you one thing, we're going to break the John Yovicsin mold...
Perhaps the true test of Bok's commitment to student opinion will come when he has to make a major appointment which has no heir apparent. It is only clear now that he is willing to break the Pusey mold of the past decade and at least give students the feeling that they have something to do with Harvard's decision-making process...