Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Simone: Okay! But men don't shape their whole lives to fulfill their idea of "masculinity," do they? They are human first. In being male they in no way interfere with their being human: the two go along in the same direction: forward. But as soon as a woman starts trying to live up to her femininity first and foremost, it directly conflicts with her humanity. It pulls her down into sex, torpor, uncreativeness, dependency, subordination. All of these can have a part in her life, but not the basic part...
Neither President Kennedy nor President Johnson has ever supposed that this was going to be an easy contest or one in which there would be a rapid and decisive solution... I do not think we can now predict the exact shape of the eventual settlement. I myself believe that the question of the internal political organization and prospects of non-Communist South Vietnam is quite critical. This indeed is one of the uncertainties in the current situation... The bulk of the effort in Vietnam-in terms of human suffering and human loss-is being made by Vietnamese...
...crew that has smashed records for the Charles and Lake Carnegie courses is in excellent shape for its meeting with a Yale eight that still has not reached top form this year. The Elis lost two early-season races, won only one, and failed to reach the finals of the Eastern Sprints, Harvard won the Sprints by a record margin and led Yale in the morning heat by three-and-a-half lengths...
...organized in the early 1930s to form small academic and social communities within the increasingly impersonal hustle of the modern university. At both universities the college system, its evolution slowed by World War II and the aftermath, is still in flux, and each new master has an opportunity to shape its eventual pattern. Counselor and friend, social leader and intellectual mentor, the master presides over the college's 300 to 400 students from his house in the quadrangle. His personality becomes the college's, and realizes or denies the original ideal...
...time-consuming demands of the college. "It's a beast of a problem," confesses the Rev. B. Davie Napier, master of Calhoun and Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation. "It is a deep involvement in the lives of other people. But nobody has a chance to shape, improve, and inspire this collective education as the master does." Thomas G. Bergin, master of Timothy Dwight, who found time to write a new study of Dante, thinks that the job gives "a sense of being in contact, keeping up with the young...