Word: paragoning
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...present century, Oliver Wendell Holmes's legal opinions are preserved as models of lucidity for undergraduates writing essays on admissions applications. T.S. Eliot articulated the equivocations that would plague a later generation when he inquired, "Do I dare top eat a peach?" And John Kennedy, a paragon of the man holding the reigns of power, advocated no starry-eyed idealism but a more tangible ethic that sanctioned the sending of troops to Vietnam and the Bay of Pigs...
...Manhattan café converted from a theater that LeRoy had acquired so he could be a writer, director and producer. He wanted to transform the cafe into a restaurant where he would "create the sense of spectacle." He did, and Maxwell's Plum is now the paragon of Manhattan's singles spots, earning a tidy 13% profit on a yearly gross of about $4.5 million, and delivering LeRoy a salary of more than $200,000. That leaves the 39-year-old LeRoy with one dream to fulfill: losing the 60 lbs. he has gained "tasting and testing" since...
...learned nothing. The image of the "happy worker" that he seeks to repudiate in one passage of the journal is, ironically, the paragon he has erected by the end. Coleman's odyssey is the masturbatory indulgence of a graying and cerebral paper-shuffler who is joyously finding sanguine reality in mindless sandwich-stuffing and garbagetoting. He should have left his diary in his desk...
...John Andrews, a public paragon and Chief Justice of Canada's Supreme Court, guilty of manslaughter? Though this deftly constructed Canadian novel has all the familiar elements-suspense, surprise, a fine courtroom scene-it is as far from Perry Mason as classical tragedy is from melodrama. The narrator, who is also Andrews' lawyer, is concerned with the deep roots of culpability or innocence rather than simple detection. He reconstructs the Chief Justice's life, posthumously, through the impressions of people who knew him. The recollections serve as admissible evidence-always selective, always specific. Their purpose...
...dough and getting by with cheaper cuts of meat by applying more meat tenderizers. "I used to go into a supermarket and buy any brand I wanted, but now I take the one with the coupons," she says. Nessa Forman, arts editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin, has become a paragon of self-control. "I used to think nothing of going into a store and buying a pair of shoes without looking at the price," she says. "Now I look at the price, and I likely walk out the same way I came in-in my old shoes. Spring shopping...