Word: paragone
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Cheeky Urge. Benedictus deftly draws these two crucial characters with scrupulous shading. No misunderstood paragon, Scarfe is a self-pitying, physically ungraceful, volubly religious boy destined for hazing in any school. Thoughtful and sensitive by nature. Phillips nevertheless wants to be accepted at school. Eventually he is elected to the house "library," a group of senior students who dispense discipline, including canings, to the others. When Scarfe comes up for caning, Phillips disapproves privately but does not protest. And as the caning goes on, he makes an appalling discovery about himself. "He found himself pressing his knees together in excitement...
Died. Jesse Crawford, 66, paragon of U.S. theater organists, who rose from cornetist in a Seattle orphanage to the gilded consoles of the movie palaces' mightiest Wurlitzers without formal keyboard training, earned as much as $150,000 a year as the brilliantined virtuoso of the treacle-to-thunder style he called "the violets and Wagner stuff"; of a heart attack; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...
...subtlety means a talent for seeing one thing in many ways at once, or for speaking in a tone of voice that defies simple interpretation, then Horace is a paragon of subtlety. His doctrine of the golden mean may seem to be a call to moderation; but, by a careful analysis of this recurrent theme, Commager forces us to see that Horace advised not moderation, but rather decorum, a sense of the fitting act, thought or word...
...condemn others, and in Iran, the land of classic dualism, one's own position may be exalted as shining light while the opposing view is evil darkness. Neither Dr. Mossadegh nor the Shah should be condemned as archfiends, nor should one or the other be exalted as a paragon of virtue. Criticism is certainly desirable but it should be constructive, and calling names serves little purpose. I hope Iranian students in this country, who hold many views, will avoid extremist positions, and rather study and work for the welfare of their country, so that Iran and all its admirable traditions...
Barely four years ago, General Dynamics seemed the paragon of the U.S. defense business, a precocious infant that had come from nowhere to rack up earnings of $44 million on sales of $1.6 billion -figures that put it neck and neck with long-established Boeing. But by 1960, the company's once respectable profits had turned into a $27 million loss, and in 1961 the company's net losses hit $40 million in the first nine months alone. But the most staggering statistic about General Dynamics was that in its efforts to break into the commercial jet market...