Word: paragone
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...KNOW anything about Magic Johnson, you'll have to take the word of everyone who does that he is an amazing person, a paragon of unselfishness, humility, hard work, optimism and public-mindedness totally anomalous in today's sordid underworld of professional sports. It is no coincidence that the hundreds of players, reporters and league officials who know him personally--not to mention the millions of inner-city teenagers, schoolteachers, police officers and corporate executives who don't--were devastated by his announcement...
Other numbers--including that paragon of male bonding, "Johnny O'Connor," and a powerful "Walk Between the Raindrops"--followed like clockwork, and the set reached a climax with a riveting rendition of William Blake's "Jerusalem," featuring a rich solo from Ignatius...
...wants to create the position of--drum roll, please--UC public relations officer! Basically, this unfortunate soul will have to read every issue of the Salient, the Perspective, the Independent and The Crimson, then organize official council responses to any implications that the council is anything but a paragon of streamlined efficiency, financial acumen, selfless diligence and conscientious responsiveness to the popular will...
...most shocking story of the summer, the City of Cambridge completely lost track of not one, not two (drum roll, please), but 14,000 parking tickets issued during the early '80s! Yes! Congratulations to our efficient friends in the Cambridge parking bureaucracy! Incidentally, this paragon of an organization nailed me for not one, not two, but 10 parking tickets this summer. I paid...
...most shocking story of the summer, the City of Cambridge completely lost track of not one, not two (drum roll, please), but 14,000 parking tickets issued during the early '80s! Yes! Congratulations to our efficient friends in the Cambridge parking bureaucracy! Incidentally, this paragon of an organization nailed me for not one, not two, but 10 parking tickets this summer. I paid...