Word: paragone
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Fearless and teal, pious and pitying, cunning and courteous, he was a paragon of chivalry and the mold of Spanish manhood. He became a legend in his lifetime, and some 40 years after his death in 1099 he was celebrated in El Poema de Mio Cid-a vast rambling rime that became the national epic-as the Lancelot of Spain and something more, as a sort of Round Table...
Still, at times, a gallant Broadway cast has a ball among the mothballs. In the role of Mimi Paragon, social director of the S.S. Coronia, Star Elaine Stritch performs comic labors in herding a party of U.S. hicks, stuffy Britons, lushes, lady authors, child horrors and pet dogs (including one named Adlai) through a Mediterranean cruise with stops at Tangiers, Naples and the Parthenon...
Thus begins the controversial American writer in his famous Troplo of Cancer, banned in America since its publication in Paris in 1934 and long considered a paragon of pornography. Published in France, Sweden, Japan, and Mexico, it has found its way through U.S. Customs offices in laundry bags in such quantities that Miller has even thanked the country for the censorship...
...idolizing his father as a paragon of power and virtues. The process is severest in the sons of outstandingly successful men: their anxiety neuroses are as notorious as the traditional case of the preacher's son becoming a drunkard. A career girl is shredded by the need to excel father or mother or both, and for her the problem may be complicated by Oedipal feelings toward father...
...characters is always the same: the old fashioned parents, a member of the family who habitually gets drunk at the Seder, another relative who is, embarrassingly enough, an Orthodox Jew, who actually goes to Temple and observes the directory laws. I do not ask that every Jew be a paragon of virtue, but I find novels of this genre increasingly offensive and some of them more than faintly anti-Semitic...