Word: molds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent at the University, Walter Gropius became almost a spiritual leader of the Graduate School of Design. To the outside world he was the school; to much of the faculty, he, not Dean Joseph Hudnut, set the policy; and to the students, he was the ideal architect, the master mold into which they poured their talents...
...static frontiers for business. To keep it ever expanding, a corporation needs the domination of a man like Avery Bullard, who is willing to devote his life to the corporation. In the end, the new president of the Tredway Corp. is a man out of the same mold as Bullard. Yet he realizes, which Bullard did not, that the presidency may turn him into a kind of machine with no soul beyond the corporation. Nevertheless, he can't resist the challenge of the job and the temptation of the ever-expanding frontier. Says he: "We talk about Tredway being...
...enforced levy and membership themselves we decry as much as the possibility they raise of the ROTC ultimately packing half the college (the units' present enrollment) into a tight social mold, with common ideals, tastes, attitudes, and loyalties. No aim could be more foreign to a place like Harvard, where diversity is a vital part of education...
Harvard's ROTC commanders have managed their exasperating task very well on the whole, but in this case, we fear, one of them is on the wrong side of that vague but crucial line. If the AROTC could not mold officers without dances, then we could hardly object to coercion. This is not the case, though. Dances and other social functions are hardly essential to teach men discipline, to teach them military procedures, techniques, and the other qualities good officers possess. Social functions are just not important enough to justify the inroads they make on an undergraduate's normal interests...
...calls Inertness, the quality of the Russian mind which excludes initiative and makes action wholly dependent on minutely detailed orders from on high. The most interesting part of "Soviet Opposition to Stalin" is Fischer's exploration of this vacuum of will, where he lucidly and briefly outlines what conditions mold such a mentality and how. When he is done, his thesis seems unexceptionable...