Word: molds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Empires & Operators. By the folklore of Washington, the man who manages the operational functions of an organization will mold its policy in the long run. This has come to be an accepted law of administrative life, as solid as Newton's laws of motion. Consequently, career State Department officials respected Dean Acheson's concern with operational details. They could not at first understand John Foster Dulles, the broad-picture man, who believed that the State Department had been distracted from its policymaking job by its preoccupation with miscellaneous operating functions-foreign aid, technical aid, propaganda, etc. When Dulles...
...first mass-production orders in the Civil War, when it supplied all the soap for the Union armies of the West. Then, one day in 1875, a forgetful workman made a mistake that was to mold the company's future: he left his soap-mixing machine running during lunch hour, thus turned out a batch of soap full of tiny air bubbles. It seemed a dreadful mistake, but somehow the batch got out of the factory...
...This fact is not surprising. A century of history records the changes in institutions: it does not fix their mold. And this was a century of shattering change . . . Over such a span of time, the only perfectly consistent institution was a dead institution. And the Republican Party was-and is-very much alive ... It helped mold each age and was itself molded by each age-the extremist party in one day, 'the champion of something called 'normalcy' in another...
...that his country had suffered too much from specialists-tough Realpolitiker, spiritual flagpole-sitters, and thought-spinning intellectuals. What was needed, he felt, was to reunite education and firsthand experience of life and to weld both within the Christian tradition. Keusen, a convert from Roman Catholicism, set out to mold a new type of German youth "who knows something, who is somebody, and who believes in something...
Such praise only annoys the testy professor even more. "Nonsense," he snaps. "It's no more difficult than restoring any other old painting. This painting has been ruined by a bunch of morons." The professor's problem: not only to remove the ages of dirt and mold, but also the layers of clumsy retouching brushed on by past restorers. "It's extremely simple," he says. "You just scratch until you reach the real Leonardo." Then, smiling behind his spectacles, he adds: "The only difficulty lies in knowing exactly when to stop...