Word: paradigm
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DIED. David K.E. Bruce, 79, paradigm of the American aristocrat-public servant, who worked for six Presidents as diplomat, adviser and troubleshooter; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The tall, courtly son of a Maryland Senator and Pulitzer-prizewinning author, Bruce had a Jeffersonian career-farmer, lawyer, author, state legislator, businessman, Army colonel, sportsman, art patron, raconteur and wine connoisseur. After running the European operations of the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) during World War II, Bruce helped rebuild the Continent as an administrator of the Marshall Plan and later as Ambassador to France under Harry...
...riots were deeply mortifying to the Communists, especially since they took place in Bologna, which the party has always pointed to as a paradigm of how it would work within a pluralistic society. Stung by the protests, Bologna party leaders suspected Italy's secret service, the CIA or other foreign intelligence outfits of manipulating extremists in order to discredit the Communists. Party leaders are especially bitter about a Parisian manifesto signed by 26 leftist intellectuals, including Writer Jean-Paul Sartre, accusing the Italian party of brutally putting down the students in Bologna...
...system reinforces loyalties to itself and encourages dissenters to become reformers by limiting the means of exit available to its clients. Conversely, if the exit option is encouraged and reform stifled, dissidents leave the system to those who either do not care or cannot escape. Hirschmann's latter paradigm explains why public education in Boston has been so abysmal over the past 30 years. A leading force of innovation in national education up to World War II, Boston's school system has steadily decayed to a level of clear cut mediocrity, catering to a student body ethnically and economically unrepresentative...
Together, Ochs and Van Anda made the Times a Victorian paradigm of probity and thoroughness, emphasizing diplomatic and national political reporting and eschewing titillating ac counts of crime and scandal. But not all crime and scandal...
According to the Adams Club Directory of Harvard Historians, which is put out by the graduate students in the History Department, Nelson has been writing a thesis entitled, "Beyond the Lockean Paradigm: Ideology and the Established Order in England from the Glorious Revolution to the American Rebellion...