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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...
...worth at least $5 million?which makes him considerably richer than most of the mighty or the flighty he interviews. Though he refers to his corporate conglomerate as "my cottage industry," Paradine,* Ltd. (the name, not incidentally, almost rhymes with paradigm) grosses an estimated $20 million a year. In addition to the $1 million he expects to garner from his Nixon interviews, he hopes to get a few farthings from his glossy Cinderella movie musical, The Slipper and the Rose; an eight-part TV series, Crossroads of Civilization, which is being shot on a $2.5 million budget in Iran...
...part three (1820-1860), David Brion Davis by contrast manages to make the often opaque character of Ralph Waldo Emerson both fascinating and comprehensible. Davis, who won his Pulitzer for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, also offers a splendid essay on the Mormon experience as a paradigm of American dissent: a people at odds with society while yearning to be part...
Rudolph's debut feature Welcome to L.A. deserves a couple of critics' stars on guts alone: he has consciously borrowed the impressionistic slice-of-life framework of Nashville and made it work with even less of a plot than Robert Altman's cinematic paradigm. Granted that the basically uncommercial quality of the format has been somewhat offset by the presence of a galaxy of New Hollywood actors; but from a strictly critical standpoint, Rudolph has effectively invited comparisons with his famous mentor that would seem to place his first major work at an almost fatal disadvantage. Yet Welcome...