Word: paragone
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Died. Basil Rathbone, 75, Hollywood's paragon of British urbanity, a rakish, aquiline-nosed immigrant from the London stage who menaced, mocked and often sleuthed his way through more than 100 pictures, including 16 as a resonant Sherlock Holmes, after which he deserted Baker Street for a versatile career in TV and on the Broad way stage (1959's J.B.); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Administrative Board was not designed to appear to be a paragon of justice. It was built to work. Monro insists that the Ad Board should not be allowed to become an adversary process, but rather should remain a private review Board (as opposed to a public trial) which can consult confidential background material before reaching a decision...
...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. This British comedy paints life in dark hues as Playwright Frank Marcus shades in the off-mike personality of a beloved soap-opera paragon of patience and mercy who, once away from the BBC, is the epitome of a lesbian bully. Beryl Reid gives an amusing, incisive interpretation of "George...
...show only ran three months, but it came within two votes of winning the Drama Critics Circle Award. Chapman's favorite playwright, his paragon, is Shaw, and Billy Budd revealed in Chapman a Shavian concern for getting across a message of morals and ethics...
...note that nonlawyer Dacey, uncertified, self-designated paragon, has put together a home-remedy lawbook. I hope this will not inspire some operating-room orderly to put together a hodgepodge of medical mishmash on how to avoid hospital and surgery fees by home removal of appendix, tonsils and other anatomical appendages...