Word: exemplar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...note-taking off the bench and his analysis of the issues." Freund said of Holmes. He summed up his impression of the man by observing that "the joyous freedom of his mind, the greatness of his life, and the high way he took his mortality made him an exemplar for a time of searching...
...sometimes perceptive, some times ponderous essays about Nixon, Watergate, Cambodia, Agnew or poli tics in general. The New Yorker's sol emn discovery of causes was often over bearing and relentless. Indeed, Critic Philip Nobile, in his journalistic study Intellectual Skywriting, found the mag azine a prime exemplar of radical chic...
Moon is a man of many faces. To some, he is a Korean exemplar of Americanism and anti-Communism who merits fond words from the superpatriotic Sons of the American Revolution. To others, he is an international educator who lures students to indoctrination seminars with guest lectures by such big-name academics as Political Scientists Roger Hilsman and Samuel P. Huntington...
...stories focus on things that don't matter much, and when that becomes clear they shift to things that matter even less, from Ford's alleged slowness to his willingness to pick up his own newspaper. And when reporters discover the same man they're been billing as an exemplar of truth-telling telling lies about Chile, they don't know how to account for it: all they can do is change their line. Because they share Ford's false assumptions, his more radical dishonesty...
...drink a few beers, to swap locker room jokes. The high school heroes, grown men now, still refer to their host as "Coach" with the kind of nameless deference that is usually reserved for a parent. They look at him as the symbol of old times, as an exemplar of moral and physical strength...