Word: exemplars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spiritual depth alone clearly does not account for his force, any more than his forbidding technique does. What generates his awesome power is the dynamic equilibrium between both sides of his creative faculty. He gives a full measure of both head and heart, and stands as an exemplar not only of fullness but, above all, of balance. Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, of all people, once wrote of Bach: "He taught how to find originality within an established discipline; actually-how to live...
...radical Negroes who would rather go it alone. Students must be taught pride, he admits, but they must also be taught the tools with which to compete. "Math is math," he says. "It's not black math." Fervently preaching involvement with the community, Francis is himself the foremost exemplar sitting on more than half a dozen local committees and com missions. He even owns a small piece of the National Football League's New Orleans Saints...
...cool head and a warm heart." Those are the job qualifications for a good KGB agent, writes Russian Spy Rudolph Abel, addressing fledgling operatives in the Soviet secret police. The convicted spy that the U.S. exchanged for downed U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1962, Abel is the exemplar and frequent spokesman for a current massive Soviet propaganda campaign. Its aim: to trumpet the glorious exploits of the KGB in the Russian press, TV, radio and cinema...
What the Times seemed to regard as a quaint exemplar of ranch-house politics takes on a more unsavory look in the light of at least one of the chores Fortas was apparently called upon to perform while he was a Justice. Early in 1967, Ralph Lazarus, president of the Federated Department Stores, predicted that expenditures on the war in Vietnam for the coming year would be some $5 billion over the President's public estimates. The next day Lazarus received a call from Justice Fortas, which the Times relates "was to transmit Lyndon Johnson's ire." Lazarus quickly recanted...
Aeschylus to Altizer. Scott, who has a B.A. in English literature and a Ph.D. in religion from Columbia University, is a leading exemplar of a fast-growing speciality in U.S. seminaries and universities: the joint study of literature and theology. Pioneered by Chicago, which inaugurated its first course in the field in 1950, literature-and-theol-ogy is now being offered by eight other U.S. universities and divinity schools...