Word: paragone
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Shame on you for focusing on the Gap as a paragon of marketing. This corporation has a well-documented history of exploiting sweatshop labor, which has sparked protest. Maybe if the Gap pared down its ridiculous $500 million marketing budget and provided safe working conditions and a living wage for its employees, I could actually buy those "fashionable" clothes and have a clear conscience. Until then, it's simply not worth it to be "in style." ERIN GAEL CHAMBERS Arcata, Calif...
...Bank loans amount to 145% of GNP. Courtis warned against taking too much solace from last year's anemic 1% Japanese growth rate, which was caused by massive spending and worsened an already dismal fiscal picture. "The Japan of today makes the Italy of yesterday look like a paragon of fiscal rectitude," said Courtis. "The country has to engage in a reform agenda of a magnitude we've rarely seen in a modern country...
...Throughout her career, Gordimer has been a paragon of authorly virtue: a white writer in apartheid South Africa, she stood staunchly with what she always calls the "liberation movement." Her fiction exposes the bleeding heart of South African society, and her eye is precise and unflinching. This is not to say that her fiction is nakedly ideological: rather, it speaks complex truths about human relationships and social realities. It shocks the reader with its honesty...
...Throughout her career, Gordimer has been a paragon of authorly virtue: a white writer in apartheid South Africa, she stood staunchly with what she always calls the liberation movement. Her fiction exposes the bleeding heart of South African society, and her eye is precise and unflinching. This is not to say that her fiction is nakedly ideological: rather, it speaks complex truths about human relationships and social realities. It shocks the reader with its honesty...
...graduate of Oxford college and a loyal patriot, Bond is the paragon of thoughtful manliness, which is not always an oxymoron. He is intelligent but not reflective, independent (the "00" in "007" represents a license to kill) but not reckless, reliable but not predictable. Consider, by contrast, the brutish strength of professional athletes, or the thoughtless braggadocio of action heroes like Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the like. Bond is a caricature of manliness, to be sure, but not an altogether unflattering...