Word: paragone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Don't Cry (Columbia), but Sal Mineo's lustrous brown eyes get mighty moist in this movie while he fends off all manner of ruffians, twerps and smart alecks. As a 17-year-old paragon of adolescence in a Georgia orphanage, "Big Fella" Mineo stoutly defends the "little fellas" from harm, sturdily resists the temptations and blandishments of a bevy of Bad Examples. In hammering out his selfless philosophy of life, Sal learns through bitter experience to reject the cynical green applesauce of an opportunistic main-chancer (Thomas Carlin), and to sneer at the diesel-crass plutocracy...
Other pop and jazz records: Atom Bomb Baby (The Five Stars; Dot). A rocking, slack-mouthed salute to a terrifying mid-20th-century paragon who is "a million times hotter than TNT." A candidate for success in the jukebox and leather-jacket...
Since his death Orwell has become a kind of paragon to many writers. Those who have not stopped with Lionel Trilling's conclusion that "He was a virtuous man," have used this conclusion to vindicate the cherished suspicions that each has imputed to Orwell's now-protean figure. Hollis' attempt to Christianize Orwell is no more mistaken than the projections of R. J. Voorhees, for instance, who writes about Orwell's "Secular crusade," or of John Atkins who calls him a "social saint," forgetting perhaps that Orwell had written in his essay on Gandhi, "Sainthood is a thing human beings...
...United States," said the President, "cannot live alone-a paragon of prosperity-with all the rest of the world sinking lower and lower in its standards of living. There are many ways in which we can use our influence to make certain that other peoples recognize the virtues of a free, competitive capitalistic system rather than to take the shortcut-the spurious and false road that is offered them by the Communistic ideology . . . And so we must carry not only a material message to the world of what kind of enterprise we have-the kind of system...
...boldest touch is the interpretation of Alcestis. Usually seen as a paragon of unselfishness, as played by Abigail Lewis she seems to take inhuman pleasure in her martyrdom. The loss of a foil for the other monsters is difficult to overcome--in this production impossible...