Word: exemplar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...piece about Trump, and I had long thought he was emblematic of the times. For that reason he was interesting to watch. Instead of declaiming on the universe, we try to pick out people or companies that more or less represent trends. I thought that Trump was a fine exemplar of financial leverage and gall, both of which were in oversupply and now are becoming scarcer...
Enter John Silber, president of Boston University, a Reaganite Democrat who has long advertised his disdain for Dukakis. Silber tossed off offensive remarks -- toward bureaucrats, the elderly, feminists, ghetto residents, Jews -- the way most candidates distribute campaign buttons. But he came across as an exemplar of change (and anger) at a moment when voters hungered for nothing but. In the end, his laser lip earned him the same anti-politician cachet that has propelled the cowboy campaign of Clayton Williams, the Republican candidate for Governor in Silber's native state of Texas. Silber, like Williams, is viewed as a populist...
...writer. "Capote was a writer who happened to be gay; I am a gay writer," he insists. In fact, he has based his career on it, a high-stakes gamble that has worked. All gay writing can be labeled pre-AIDS or post-AIDS, and White's is an exemplar of the latter. His most recent short stories, three of which are collected in a book called The Darker Proof, deal specifically with the AIDS crisis...
...unlucky Nicolas de Stael, last exemplar of the School of Paris, is rediscovered for the American public in a marvelous show at the Phillips Collection...
...longtime antiapartheid activists take satisfaction from the mere sight of him. For a sometimes dispirited American civil rights coalition, Mandela provides, as he has before, a rallying point and common cause. For the many blacks who have begun to call themselves African Americans, he is a flesh-and-blood exemplar of what an African can be. For Americans of all colors, weary of their nation's perennial racial standoffs, his visit offers the opportunity for a full-throated expression of their no less perennial hope for reconciliation...