Word: shaper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEMOIRS: 1925-1950, by George F. Kennan. A leading expert in American-Russian relations, the former diplomat details his career as student and shaper of U.S. foreign policy...
...person, Ottaviani was a symbol of repressive Catholic conservatism and a leader of the stand-fast minority at the Second Vatican Council. Ottaviani's successor is Yugoslavia's Franjo Cardinal Seper, 62, the Archbishop of Zagreb. As his country's unofficial primate since 1960, Seper (pronounced "shaper") has pursued a course of accommodation with Tito; at the recent Synod of Bishops in Rome he was overwhelmingly elected by his fellow prelates to head its commission on theology...
...unrelieved shrillness of your editorial of October 2. "The Shame of Faculty Silence," has overcome a long-standing rule of mine against indulging in letters to editors. What the Crimson does to its role as a reporter and ideally as a shaper of opinion at Harvard is obviously none of my business--though I am entitled to my own views about the effect on thoughtful readers of this sort of rhetorical overkill. What does concern me is the possible distortion of motives and effects implicit in your discussion of last week's visit to Washington by fifteen members of this...
...though modeled on historical fact. After a compelling evening with this Luther, incandescently acted by Albert Finney, one knows that one has seen a hugely tormented Promethean rebel. It is rather less certain that one has been in the presence of a towering Christian and the prime mover and shaper of the Reformation...
...Wyoming's wonders is the rare, 75-ft. brontosaurus skeleton that he recently assembled in the campus museum. Not least, Knight was the faculty wise man at Laramie for 47 years, a policy shaper under seven presidents...