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Five weeks ago Nikita Khrushchev convened in Moscow an ecumenical council of the Communist hierarchs of 81 nations to deal with the threat of schism raised by efforts of the brash Peking Communist school to put itself forward as the true exemplar of Communist faith and practice. Last week the resulting creed finally was published in Moscow and in Communist papers around the world...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, 54, was a living exemplar of the American Dream, big-city version. A laborer's son, he was born and raised in a shabby Irish neighborhood in Manhattan's decaying Lower East Side, left school for good at 14, a month short of completing the eighth grade, to work for a carting firm as a $3-a-week dispatcher's helper. Industrious, personable, and gifted with a flair for oratory, he early caught the eye of the Fourth Ward's Democratic political chieftains, fellow Irishmen all. When he was 21, a Fourth Ward...
...Lonely Crowd, Riesman said, falls into the romantic category, placing its emphasis on specific social strata in this country. The book takes the U.S. as the chief exemplar of post-industrial society and seeks to assess the meaning of this situation for individuals and for institutions...
Dick was brought up to become nothing less than a repository of Southern traditions and an exemplar of Southern character. Father was a Presbyterian and mother a Methodist, a strict disciplinarian who wielded the peachtree switch and leather strap on the children "until the blood came." Twice, before Dick was 13, the Bible was read aloud in family meetings-all the way through. Well Dick learned the old family stories-great-grandfather had owned a plantation and 35 or 40 slaves; grandfather had his cotton mill on Sweetwater Creek burned down and his slaves set free by Sherman...
Health Association-its value just upped from $2,500 to $5,000-as an "exemplar par excellence of the 'wellbeing of mankind throughout the world,' public-health statesman, influential medical educator, wise counselor and friend...