Word: mold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALLARD LOWENSTEIN served only one term in Congress, thought he ran again and again, and less than a year as an ambassador to the United Nations. But somehow the man who as David Halberstam '55 writes, seemed to specialize in causes rather than jobs" managed to mold a great many lives and shape more than one man's share of history. Best known for initiating the Dump Johnson movement in 1967 a movement whose success stunned political leaders. Lowenstein was also one of the first to take on the evils of racial discrimination in Mississippi and organize students against...
...that case, Thomas' fiction does not fit the mold, for it enhances reality, brings it alarmingly close. His fiction is never tame, perhaps because it is essentially poetry, and powerful poetry at that--poetry brought under the control of a prose form...
...feels he's come a long way from when he first tried playing under Cleary Coming from the junior leagues, it took a while to adjust to the Crimson mentor's standards. "A lot of coaches will work with the variation (in their players)," he notes "Cleary likes to mold everyone into a fast skating team. I was more of a roaming center and Cleary plays a very tight system--the center stays in the middle...
...when his leftist leanings roused the Harvard Board of Overseas, for the first and last time, into trying to wield its merely symbolic power of halting tenure appointments. Furthermore, unlike less imaginative colleagues and students who simply emulate legends of that era, Galbraith actually helped shape his caricature's mold...
...dirty snowball of lies and slander now rolling over the pages of the Western press will sooner or later melt under the rays of the truth," Pravda declared. "Only dirt will remain, which will stain for a long time the political reputation of those who were helping to mold that snowball." The target of the unusual vituperation: widespread suspicions in the West that the KGB plotted or abetted or was at least aware of the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in May 1981, with the Bulgarian secret police serving as its proxy...