Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McNamara left the Pentagon in the best shape, managerially speaking, it has ever been in. Inevitably he also left behind a spate of unresolved problems that Clifford must confront even if he is only in office through next January in a caretaker role, as some officials expect. Chief among them...
...play changes shape in the eye and era of the beholder. When Tiger at the Gates was written in 1935, the shadow of Hitler fell across the world and darkened the significance of Jean Giraudoux' drama. In its first U.S. production in 1955, the menace of McCarthyism seemed to be echoed in the play. Doubtless the mentors of Manhattan's Lincoln Center now see this tragic confrontation between the Greeks and the Trojans as a cautionary parable of the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, though the analogy is wrenchingly sophomoric. The sad fact is that Tiger cannot carry...
...honors he has received, the clubs he belongs to, and his honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy. He is natural, almost naive as he talks about his facility in poetry. "The creative urge is so strong in me that I write all the time. The problem is to shape all this into something viable. I am absolutely undisciplined. I write only when the spirit moves me. I'm one of the old fashioned people that depends on inspiration. I wrote my best poems in the white heat of realization and didn't change more than a few words...
...students so unimportant that some nebulous alumnus' comprehension of "Harvard Life," or some "public relations problem" completely overrides students' real, just, and overwhelming wishes to shape their own living environment? President Pusey has stated that Harvard enters into the concerns of society through its students. Harvard then gains its vitality through the deeds of its student body. Why then does the Administration treat us as mere transients at an institution...
Cambridge's Model Cities program is beginning to take shape, but it faces a long struggle to live up to its advance billing. If it does so, there'll be a real party down at "The Famous...