Word: mold
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...didn't exist. He was, in a sense, fooling himself and, of course, fooling everyone else. But all of us--the readers, the newspaper which published his story, and myself, the person who wrote the story--were willing collaborators in the scheme to shove Robin Starling into an acceptable mold. We were all fooling ourselves...
...seeing the true nature of the world. And if we can be fooled about the world, we can be fooled about ourselves. If we can be talked into pursuing goals that have nothing to do with our ideals, them we can be talked into thinking that falling into the mold leaves us, like Robin, somehow less abandoned...
...Along with Martha Graham, George Balanchine helped lay the foundations of 20th century dance. In Edward Villella, Patricia McBride, Allegra Kent, Helgi Tomasson, Peter Martins and Peter Schaufuss, City Ballet has wonderful dancers. But it frowns on stars and remains a choreographer's company, mainly in the Balanchine mold. Too much of a good thing has resulted in high-quality, efficient but somehow uninvolved evenings. The return of prodigal Suzanne Farrell from five years abroad, plus increasing focus on Choreographer Jerome Robbins' wide-ranging talents, may create some needed excitement...
What irritated him then and angers him now was the way Harvard worked to make him "conform to an elite mold--socially, politically, Christ, in so many ways." The pressure to conform went beyond clothes and into studies. Marglin realized after he discovered economics his freshman year. "The main thrust around here was how complicated life was, and how you should be deferential to authority," he says. "Mary wasn't worth studying because he was simplistic. My first economics course spent two days on Mary, which is the way Protestantism is taught in Catholic schools. It was taught as heresy...
...with the guest of honor and began to jitterbug, boogie and foxtrot his way around the dance floor. The British duly took note. Observed the London Evening Standard afterward: "Mr. Richardson has a particularly outstanding sense of rhythm and is an energetic and talented dancer in the Fred Astaire mold...