Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Capitol Hill, House Minority Whip Bob Michel of Illinois complained that the Administration's "do-it-yourself diplomacy is confusing other nations and the American people as well." Other critics felt that a remarkably undisciplined brand of diplomacy was taking shape. It certainly looked that...
...years ago, a scared young man named Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones stepped off the train at Grumbling, a tiny community in the pine woods of northern Louisiana. At 19, newly graduated from Southern University near Baton Rouge, he faced a formidable mission: to teach biology, chemistry and physics, shape up a football team, strike up a band, act as registrar, and help cut firewood at Grambling's 25-year-old school for black teachers...
...freedom to oppose the Moonies and the Lampoon, as you presented in your letter in March 16th's Crimson. The issue is rather precisely as I stated it in my letter (March 15th)--the right of the Moonies to peddle their wares and the freedom of the Lampoon to shape its own humor...
...dreams of Depression-deadened America into vendable celluloid. His is an Horatio Alger story with an F. Scott Fitzgerald twist, a saga of material success rooted in romantic illusion. For a while, Stahr can have his cake and sell it too; but the crisis comes when he tries to shape his own life in the image of the movies by snatching happiness from an ill-fated love affair. For Fitzgerald, success and illusion may be wedded, but what Stahr learns finally is that both are easily wrecked on the rocks of American reality...
Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, mathematician and artist whom Time Magazine named last week as one of Ten Teachers Who Shape the Future, said yesterday he turned to law as a career after he graduated because he "couldn't live with a blackboard" as a mathematician...