Word: shaped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...educators, calls for a "sweeping renovation" of the states' obsolescent machinery. "The 50 legislatures are beset by crucial issues," says the committee in an 85-page study of American states, "but few are organized, equipped, qualified, or even empowered to perform their policy functions with distinction." Unless they shape up, it adds, the states will be unable to counter "any tendency toward monolithic centralization of power in the national government...
...authority on corporate finance whose teaching and research have helped to shape modern financial management practices, Hunt is the fifth man to hold the Business School's oldest endowed chair...
...reason U.S. amateur tennis is in such parlous shape is that talent too often goes unrewarded. Puerto Rico's Charles Pasarell, for example, has won two straight U.S. Indoor championships and was the only American even to reach the men's quarterfinals at Wimbledon-yet he was passed over for the 1967 Davis Cup team. Then there is Billie Jean Moffitt King...
This inexplicable union of victim and executioner so unsettles Nicolas that he can no longer write fiction. To shape a new life, he takes a job with a new magazine, which assigns him to explore France "as you would the Amazon." He is accompanied on the quest by Marcelle Landau, a beautiful young woman who, because she had been a homely child, still thinks herself ugly. They become lovers, and since each is a grade A neurotic, the romance takes a rollercoaster course...
...detail. But stunning as were these effects, they seemed to be employed as things-in-themselves rather than as elements in an over-all interpretation. Too much for instance, was made of Beethoven's strategic pauses, which though pregnant with meaning can easily turn barren when pushed out of shape...