Word: molding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fights to protect his union, Albert Shanker is demonstrating that he is a shrewd and sophisticated student of the uses of power. A onetime Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Columbia, he is an admirer of Elijah Jordan, an obscure American philosopher who argued that institutions, not individuals, mold a society's values. Shanker says he drifted toward the U.F.T. because it is an institution with "a power concept...
Hayden said that these programs "try to make new men and women out of the ghetto people," by forcing them into the white middle class mold. This attempt to involve blacks in participatory democracy and pressure group politics, Hayden said, represents a "neo-colonial technique which avoids an examination of the assumed values underlying...
More Strains. Macy's new top executives are more in the organization-man mold than Mr. Jack. Like Straus, President Molloy joined Macy's training squad right after Harvard ('29), later became boss of Macy's fast-growing California division. Macy's new chairman, Donald Smiley, has the salesman's open manner, yet is first to admit that he is "a nonmerchant." Macy's general attorney and then treasurer before he became vice chairman, Smiley will pursue the company's already sizable expansion program, which has added 13 new stores...
Beards and Beads. In Chicago, the delegates seemed to come from almost the same mold as the neat, well-groomed Republicans who had assembled in Miami Beach three weeks earlier. There were more of them (2,989 v. 1,333 Republicans), and they were crammed into a hall with two-thirds the capacity...
...Domestic Issue. To the Soviets, that was a threat far more direct than any matter of Marxist orthodoxy or ideology. From Czarist days, the Russians have sought to mold a buffer between themselves and Western Europe from the Baltic to the Black...