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...week wore on and Souter came to life, he was transmuted from a dazed and gray-faced gnome standing awkwardly beside the tall and tanned Bush into a Yankee original in the mold of astronauts Alan Shepard and Christa McAuliffe and the last Supreme Court Justice to hail from the Granite State, Harlan Fiske Stone. By choosing someone so hard to pigeonhole, indeed, someone from another era, Bush may have created the kind of philosophical gridlock he felt he needed to get his nominee swiftly approved. If Americans are lucky, they will also get the kind of Justice they need...
...Titans would hang their hats in Lynn, Mass. Lynn, Lars said, was another hardworking, football-crazed town in the Macon mold. Lars knew whereof he spoke--his father played for the Lynn Classical High School teams in the '40s and still lives there...
Many American historical documents have references to the systematic ferreting out and punishment of people who did not fit into the standard sexual mold. As Black Americans were seen to be somehow "subhuman," so were people who were thought to be "sexually deviant...
...includes. During the 19th and part of the 20th century, many of its theorists were romantic nationalists, some of them anti-Semitic. Even the Brothers Grimm, in their collections of fairy tales, emphasized nationalism, order, discipline and contempt for the Jews. Modern, post-1871 Germany was organized in the mold of the Prussian state and strutted the world stage until it lost the first World War, after which it was plunged into disorder, depression and despair. As Friedrich Nietzsche anticipated the response: "Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment." Out of the shambles...
...easy, just as writing a mixed review isn't easy (because you can't chuck everything as patly into a mold of good or bad), but being a critic shouldn't be easy...