Word: mold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number-three slot, the experienced pair of Abby Meiselman and Kristin Mertz clinched the match with a 6-2, 6-1 thrashing; and Meyer and Kalish also teamed up to mold a solid...
...centuries succeeds in transcending the limits of arrogance set in his first two books. If he had something thoughtful to say, Robbins might be pardoned for relegating fiction to the role of facade for his musings. But the container he constructs with his la-dee-da plot and plaster-mold characters cannot bear the weight of his philosophical spoutings. The ideas strain to be released until the storyline can no longer bear the pressure, and at the end of the novel the bottom falls...
...Harvard, as Chun's chief of staff. These moves raised hopes that Chun might be moving toward a more broadly based civilian government with greater tolerance for dissent. For the time being, though, the U.S. has to be content with a necessary ally from the same autocratic mold as President Park...
...defined "authoritarian order founded on love of one's fellowman." The Soviet Union's other giant of opposition, Physicist Andrei Sakharov, has been promulgating a very different sort of dissent lately from his internal exile in the industrial city of Gorky. Sakharov is a liberal in the Western mold, a believer in pluralist democracy. But neither alternative seems to reflect the aspirations of the Soviet masses. For all their admirable courage, the few thousand Soviet dissidents still at large have their principal following in the West. They sometimes behave like high officials of a shadow government, hoping to get their...
...Vesyoliye Rebyata (the Happy Fellows). The titles suggest what the material is like: How Wonderful the World Is!, It Isn't Your Flowers That I Love and I'll Take You Away to the Tundra. Even newer, rock-oriented music does not stray far from this sentimental mold. One of the most progressive of Moscow's young rock bands, Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine), lays down reheated versions of vintage Chicago riffs...