Word: mold
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...like Harvard with its well-kept grass, we should also try to preserve our parents’ illusions. Over the course of the next four years as we encounter new people and brave new experiences, we may break out of the mold of the studious overachiever...
...shape what kids learn throughout four years of high school. True, students have always had to brush up on vocabulary and take practice tests before the SAT, but now the College Entrance Examination Board, which owns the test, is developing the "New SAT," an exhaustive revision largely intended to mold the U.S. secondary-school system to its liking...
...high school students with college plans have flowered as a result of this explosion in interest. The market for standardized test preparation is saturated by such widely-known names as The Princeton Review and Kaplan. The Atlantic Monthly recently released its own list of top colleges, in the mold of—if also critical of—the famous ranking of U.S. News and World Report...
...which argues that the techniques the dictator used to promote communism in the 1930s presage those now used to sell products throughout the free world. Long before the creative directors of Western ad agencies and shortly before Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Stalin understood how to use images to mold public opinion. "It was mass marketing," says Boris Groys, co-curator of Dream Factory Communism - the Visual Culture of the Stalin Era, at the Schirn through early January. "The difference was that Stalin's was conducted by a totalitarian state and used to promote a single product - communist ideology...
Still, Drums and Tuba never break away from the funk/jam mold, precisely because they underuse their titular instruments. Tony Nozero’s fluid beats are more of an undercurrent than a driving rhythmic force, too often overshadowed by McKeeby’s love affair with sliding on the electric guitar. Those excited to hear the tuba will be disappointed, as Brian Wolff’s instrument mostly fades into the background as a barely audible walking bass. In Wolff’s few moments in the spotlight, his lower register booms while higher notes often slide out of tune...