Word: paradigm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make bad law. Watergate and My Lai are two of the hardest cases in recent American history, for each is freighted with immense emotional and symbolic meaning. Each involves trial of subordinates while the crime may lie higher up the chain of command. The My Lai massacre became a paradigm of everything that went wrong with the American venture in Viet Nam. Enemies of U.S. policy seized upon the event to dramatize their case. The Army, anxious to protect its name, sought to isolate the tragedy and its participants as untypical of military performance. Yet beneath the cloud of symbolism...
...moment, and all Europe was armed for the struggle that would follow his death, since, in addition to his other troubles, he was importent and could leave no heirs. In his bizarre court, where obeisance is paid to a sad stick-figure of a man, Barnes finds a paradigm of all relationships based on power and authority. Carlos himself valiantly manages to hold on to the shreds of his sanity, expecially in the speeches he delivers in the interludes of calm clarity that follow his fits; the mental cripples around him are far more warped by power...
...that they tend to exaggerate violence, and that the mere presence of TV cameras and crowds of reporters can detonate a volatile situation. Boston faced precisely such a hazard this month when public schools opened under a controversial integration plan involving busing. Local news coverage, however, was an uncommon paradigm of restraint...
...stereotypes. He cast "the media" as a monolith instead of the collection of diverse organizations and individuals that is American journalism. In hanging the civil rights movement's troubles on sensation-seeking press coverage, he ignored a host of political, social and economic factors. The piece was a paradigm of the opinionated mush that [More] attacks when it appears elsewhere. To cap the inconsistency, the same issue of [More] carried a full-page Mobil ad of the kind that Epstein deplored...
...contemporary Latin America. And it serves the U.S. right that the great American novel turned out to be a South American one. Garcia's One Hundred Years of Solitude is the only book to distill the experience of three centuries of European interaction with the Americas into a paradigm of history, culture, morals, and psychology. He proves that a political novel need not be on the level of satire or gossip, that it can rise above Allen Drury and Gore Vidal and Fletcher Knebel. Garcia's heroes are political heroes, and they are better heroes than carefully apolitical novelists have...