Word: paragone
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Oriental Slave Dance. The life dedicated to the task of being a paragon of fashion for American women began 38 years ago, far from the U.S. and far from fashion. Lisa was born in the small Swedish town of Uddevalla (present pop. 22,675), the daughter of Dr. Samuel Bern-stone, a dentist. Lisa's father had changed his name from Anderson, which he considered too commonplace: there are 48 pages of Andersons in the Stockholm telephone directory. The Bernstones were always considered a little daring by the town: they liked to go swimming in the nude. Lisa still...
...much as any man to bring prohibition to the U.S. Like many of his contemporaries who believed that morality could be legislated, he periodically struck out at lesser demons. Dancing, tobacco, Coca-Cola and even football ("neither manly nor Christian") felt his indignant lash. But in 1930, this paragon of virtue, by then long a bishop and according to H. L. Mencken "the most powerful ecclesiastic ever heard of in America," was accused by the elders of his own church of immorality, bucketshop gambling, flour-hoarding (during World War I), adultery, lying and "gross moral turpitude and disregard...
...district had failed), served with the Union Army during the Civil War, and won his place in history by standing firm during the near-rout of the Union forces at the battle of Chickamauga. These two new biographies attempt the difficult task of making the life of a military paragon seem interesting...
Young Doctor Parris Mitchell (the hero of Kings Row), a home-town boy but a Vienna-trained psychiatrist, has become a paragon of goodness. As a disciple of Freud, he naturally has a hard time convincing his fellow citizens that he is more than a doubletalking quack. In time he not only shames his narrow-minded enemies but gives them, free, some sobering doses of analysis as well. At times coming very close to being a boring do-gooder, he rids a local rich man of his compulsion to bay like a hound, comforts the intimidated German townspeople when World...
Morbid Ways & Mortgages. Toiling at the side of this unruffled paragon of sociological purpose, Beatrice-who could herself outwork and outlecture most social workers of the era-felt feebly feminine and small, "a mere dilettante." After hours of involved research into feudal economy, say, Beatrice would be ashamed to find that her head ached and she had to lie down-while Sidney indefatigably continued to probe the intricacies of mortgage and land-tenure. But he was wonderfully sympathic and never impatient...