Word: molds
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...crucial executive ability, above all for the Chief Executive of the U.S., is perceptiveness about people. This will bear heavily on the quality of the President's appointments and his ability to mold his people into an effective Administration. He must be shrewd enough to see when infighting is unavoidable, even useful, and when it is destructive. F.D.R., Truman, Ike, J.F.K. and for a time L.B.J. were good managers and motivators of people. Nixon's management methods brought us Watergate. Ford and Carter were weak as people managers. Reagan presided over some outlandish administrative arrangements last year...
Potential and confidence are two concepts that Delaney Smith constantly mentions when she talks about basketball at Harvard. She proved that she can carefully mold those qualities in any basketball player, during her coaching days at Westwood (Mass.) High School...
...chefs are invited to cook with Paul Bocuse, Craig Claiborne and Jacques Pepin. Somewhat less continental are the offerings in Richard Simmons' Never Say Diet Cookbook--Simmons urges eaters to forego roast beef and plum pudding for the delights of cheese-less cheesecake. His recipe for "Chilly Cottage Cheese Mold" might lead one to conclude that health fanatics don't really live longer--it just feels that way. Most intriguing is The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, a creative veggie cookbook...
...Prime Minister is cast in a very different mold. The son of a wealthy lumber dealer, he served as a naval paymaster in The Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) and Formosa (now Taiwan) during World War II. For a few years after the war he was so embittered that he insisted on always wearing a black tie, since "every Japanese should be in mourning." But in the early '60s, Nakasone was deeply impressed by the political style of the late Robert F Kennedy, from whom he picked up the very un-Japanese habit of shaking hands with everyone...
...even the best programs break the mold; they only burnish it. The shows that hunker down on the middle ground content themselves with switching standard characters and stories around, rearranging furniture in an old house that actually needs razing, not redecoration. Giving the stalwart Brian Dennehy a hunky dimwit (Michael Dudikoff) for a teen-age son and a young daughter (Kathy Maisnik) who is enjoying some success as a country-and-western singer does not make him measurably less like Archie Bunker, even if his brains are heavier and his social conscience a little lighter. In Star of the Family...