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...Television and Radio Artists aroused the ire of many colleagues. (Huntley argued that AFTRA is a union of "singers, actors, jugglers, announcers, entertainers and comedians, whose problems have no relation to ours.") The Nixon White House regarded him as a special thorn, and internal memorandums depicted him as a paradigm of the influential journalists who badgered the Administration. Further criticism followed his decision-after retiring from the program-to lend his anchor man's cachet to airline commercials. As board chairman and promoter of Big Sky, a planned $20 million Montana resort area, Huntley was attacked by conservationists...
...well enter British history as the election nobody won, a paradigm of a poor and poorly timed good news-bad news joke. The British voters provided something for everyone-but not enough for anyone to govern effectively.In the process, as they did in the last election, the voters also upset the best estimates of pollsters and pundits...
First of all, the quality of Harvard students' education doesn't have all that much to do with curriculum requirements. Most of the time, it doesn't even have all that much to do with their courses. Secondly, Harvard isn't the paradigm of American education any more, even assuming it was when Eliot and Lowell made their enormously influential innovations...
...bottle caps. The idea, it turned out, was to give the children some tangible feel for huge numbers. Osgood's interviews with the kids showed that they still had not the slightest notion of what 1,000,000 of anything means. The collection, however, was lumbering on-a paradigm of futility. Not a major story, to be sure, but given the Osgood treatment, a model of its kind that is scarce in both print and electronic journalism...
...years as a traveling coffee salesman. Anderson and David Sherwin went to work on enlarging McDowell's comedy into a major work. They extended McDowell's ideas into a string of improbable events which eventually present Malcolm McDowell's success -- his rise from coffee salesman to actor -- as a paradigm for humanity. Yet, despite the writers' attempts at universalizing McDowell, the main character remains an actor, and the status of successfully-luckyman which he achieves after his long quest is his salvation only...