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DAVID V. TIEDMAN, professor of education, will be chairman of a panel discussion of "Factors Which Mold Women's Careers" in the Loeb...
...Will Bury." Cubans were prepared to believe the underground. Since taking power, Castro has worked tirelessly to mold his nation's youth into loyal-and militant-Communist cadres. Reading primers assure that the first name youngsters learn to spell is Fidel or Raúl, that their first animal stories are set on collective farms, that their first bogeymen are Yanqui imperialists. With piping voices, Cuba's fourth-graders sing a jingle taught by their energetic teachers...
...year-old. the older man is a hero, a near-mythical character pressed from the rarest mold. But in the ultimate test, he turns out to be only human, and quite ready to bow to a tough opportunist. To the boy. the blow of disillusionment is shattering-and the impact on the reader is just as powerful...
After the trials, Chambers retired to his farm in Maryland and began work on Witness, a book in the classic confessional mold, its fire somewhat dampened by its self-pity-a book that has curiously passed out of conversation. In 1959 Chambers went back to school at Western Maryland College, majored in French, and earned warm praise from the department head: "He was a man capable of real contributions to scholarship...
...predecessor. "Many people-some of them well-meaning-suggested we set some sort of classic pattern for the exhibit's architecture," said he, "but we decided not to trap our exhibitors in a maze of conformity. The 1893 Chicago fair, which held strictly to a Greek and Roman mold, set American architecture back 50 years...