Word: paragone
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...patriotism, cleverly invoking Bush's father's famous castigation of Joseph McCarthy. Clinton, in an attempt to humanize himself, invoked almost every member of his family, both living and dead -- his recovering drug-addict brother who "is alive today because of the criminal-justice system"; his widowed mother, a paragon of family values even as a single parent; his "heart-of-gold" grandfather, who taught him to hate segregation; his daughter, just for being alive; and his wife because it was their 17th anniversary. (Ronald Reagan knew how to do schmaltz; no one else should ever...
...inhabitants wander aimlessly and joblessly; its Ridgecrest Mall, once the paragon of consumer culture, is mostly in plyboards. Tyler's dream world of the Sharper Image turned into a Woolworth's going-out-of-Business sale overnight...
Using the raw sexual energy of O'Keefe's work as a literal backdrop and metaphorical paragon, Reproducing Georgia, which opened last week, explores art and passion in two and a half hours of witty, lighting-fast, repartee...
What if the advertisement had not attacked Jews but another, less well-represented group at The Crimson or on campus, such as gay men and lesbians, as Peninsula did? What if we had held that ad? We might be called by some, or by someone, "a paragon...
INDEED, RECENTLY, ENOUGH, The Crimson has been called "a paragon of P.C." for different, although not unrelated reasons. For to be derisively termed "politically correct" often suggests that one has dared to correct someone politically, or too personally, where the personal is not welcome...