Word: mold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their thought and providing them with security -then perhaps they should read some birth control literature. A child is as much an individual as any other human. The only useful purpose I can conceive of for a day-care center is aiding in the construction of a world of "mold people." Hitler used day-care centers as an effective means of breaking down family structure, thus creating the "unconcerned German." DANIEL S. SARGIS Nesington, Conn...
Jelic was extremely popular with the players he has coached at Harvard, but the committee was apparently more interested in finding a completely new person, someone not in the "Yovicsin mold," as one member put it. In addition, if Jelic had been selected, he would have faced some difficult personal situations in deciding which members of the present staff to keep...
Even hockey players are breaking out of the brushcut mold. Upon joining the Boston Bruins three seasons ago, Derek ("Turk") Sanderson announced: "The square hockey world could use a change, and I'm the guy to change it." He grew a mustache, let his hair grow into a shaggy mop, spent $9,000 on a far-out wardrobe, and began mouthing off. N.H.L. President Clarence Campbell, he said, was a "stuffed shirt" for not letting him wear white skates. Famed old Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings was "the dirtiest player in the league." Named Rookie...
...command "the utmost respect of his teammates"-all highly negotiable currency in the pros, who are quite likely to peg him No. 1 in the draft. The pros are also high on Archie Manning of Ole Miss, 6 ft. 3½ in., 205 lbs. A scrambler in the mold of the New York Giants' Fran Tarkenton, Manning can pick out a receiver in a crowd of defenders and hit him with a pinpoint pass. He has the height to see over mountainous linemen and the speed (10.2 sec. for the 100-yd. dash) to turn the ends for long...
...drawback on his presidency chances, however, has been his emphasis on the development of the school at the expense of the more perfunctory duties of juggling budgets and smoothing out the administrative wrinkles. "You wouldn't characterize him as an efficiency expert," one colleague said. "He fits the mold of the dean as a teacher rather than the dean as a manager, or a fund-raiser, or administrative wizard. He's basically an educational philosopher and a humanist...