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...Berlin story, TIME'S function was to supply the information and intelligence that would help the reader to be knowledgeable about Berlin rather than to fret over it. In the case of the Chicago fire, TIME had another task-to take the facts of tragedy and mold them into a compelling narrative of misfortune and error. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Chicago School Fire...
...cheek, boiled to the crumbling point and then pressed into a mold until it looks like red marble...
...things as soliloquies and ghosts, Cue for Passion never quite goes its own way either. It ingeniously makes drunkenness an excuse for soliloquizing and a basis for seeing ghosts; but where Shakespeare uses both very early and formatively, Rice brings in both very late, making them misshape rather than mold John Kerr's nicely played but small-scale snarling boy. The play is most striking where, toward the end, it shifts the moral limelight from son to mother; and Diana Wynyard plays these later scenes brilliantly...
Center: Walter Jackson ("Jackie") Burkett, 21, Auburn; 6 ft. 4 in., 220 lbs. Junior. Major: forestry. Superb blocker with good speed, built in classic mold of pro-type middle guard; sure to be eagerly sought despite occasionally troublesome shoulder injury...
...remarks rendered an individual unworthy of Curley's further attention. His attitude toward facts resembled that of the student of the earliest Byzantine or Russian history who, in the absence of evidence, let alone verification, must not only accept the meagre suppositions that come his way, but must mold them, conn them, fashion them, shape them, corrupt them, must spin a whole universe out of the air so as to have any at all; who, having done so, steps aside, and by means of subsequently sustained inattention, accords his creation the most vigilant protection...