Word: paragone
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...much can be said for Christoph, though--he was a manly man par excellence. In the Bavarian Alps men can be men, because they won't make it there if they're anything less. As befits a man of his timbre, Christoph boasted a heady admiration for America's paragon of manliness, the Old West cowboy. We were chatting about Westerns and cowboys one day in broken English--my German goes no further than "bier" and "bratwurst"--when he told me of his son's "cowboy coloring book." I was encouraged, to say the least, that America had given this...
...paragon of this new phase in political non-discourse is Hillary Clinton, the nation's most prominent office seeker. But let's be fair. After all, she is only one of many politicians who have recently--no, wait. Let's not be fair. Like her husband, Mrs. Clinton senses unerringly the trajectories of American politics and manages with supernatural ease to embody them. Thus as she begins her pursuit of office she declines to become a campaigner. She has become a listener...
...some people have talked lately about the lack of heroes, that it would be hard to find any who stand up to scrutiny. That's a misunderstanding too. What's true is that we don't have any more of those all-purpose heroes, the king or teacher or paragon who is right and true all the time. But we do have plenty of people with heroic passages in their life, who bravely shatter a limitation or convention and open up new possibilities in the life of others. As we at TIME selected our heroes, we found a pattern...
Cher plays the leading role of Elsa, a wealthy American art collector whose ostentatious manner brings her into repeated conflict with Lady Hester (Maggie Smith), a paragon of English propriety. Cher endows with humor and depth her portrayal of Elsa's extravagance, selfless generosity, and naive trust...
Cher plays the leading role of Elsa, a wealthy American art collector whose ostentatious manner brings her into repeated conflict with Lady Hester (Maggie Smith), a paragon of English propriety. Cher endows with humor and depth her portrayal of Elsa's extravagance, selfless generosity, and naive trust...