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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...
...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...
...first thing to note about Gris is the acuteness of his limitations. There are some artists who can do virtually anything, Picasso being their modern archetype. There are others who seem able to master only one thing; and of these petits-maîtres, Gris is the exemplar...
Both Confucius and Mao place great stress on internalizing "correct" ideas and on the need for the ruler to act as a moral exemplar. Moreover, the party cadres, steeped in Marxism-Leninism, bear what must be to Mao some disconcerting resemblances to the old Confucian bureaucracy, steeped in the revered classics...
From the Congo to Connemara, the lesson to Casement was writ plain. He had been raised a Protestant in Ulster, and his next cause, after retirement from the foreign service, was to be his native Ireland, the very exemplar of colonial misrule. In 1913 war clouds were lowering and, as Sinn Fein Guru Tom Clarke prophesied, "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity." For years, while a servant of the crown, Casement had nourished a hatred of the English that was to become, in Inglis' word, a "monomania." Now he proclaimed on the eve of World...