Word: shaper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leonardo's day, water was regarded as one of the four basic elements (along with earth, air and fire). He saw it as a major shaper of the earth, circulating in underground caverns and emerging as geysers and mountain springs, and infusing all of life--an idea he often incorporated in his art by painting curls of hair as if they were twirls of a whirlpool. In a premonition of the Gaia hypothesis, which compares the planet to a living organism, he writes poetically, "We may say that the earth has a spirit of growth, and that its flesh...
...people from different parts of the country, with radically different family backgrounds and interests, of the same ethnicity. This is not to say that race does not play a central role in the formation of identity. What I am arguing is that no single characteristic is the pivotal shaper of self. People are much more complicated amalgamations of the infinite forces, nurtured and natured, that have molded them. This personal complexity translates into a profound diversity that exists even among seemingly homogenous groups...
Union spoons are shaper than Union Knives. Do not test this on your friends; try it on the brisket instead...
...France's Prime Minister, still prowled the premises, as did Britain's Prime Minister David Lloyd George, another heavyweight. "No nation in any historical period has had the spectacular success of the U.S. these past two years," adds Kissinger, who was a professor of history before he became a shaper of policy and then a wealthy consultant on international relations...
...INVITE LECH AND TADEUSZ TO THE SAME PARTY. Most Poles realize that Solidarity cannot go on being all things to all people: trade union, political party, shaper of the country's future. But hopes that the breakup would be amicable now look unlikely. The problem stems from an old hero. Lech Walesa wants to be President by forcing an early election. But most Solidarity legislators seem to prefer remaining in government and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. Even though his drastic economic reforms have cut living standards as much as 40%, polls of Poles show that he is more popular than...