Word: paragoning
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...President be elected for life, with absolute veto power over Congress. The conservative Hamilton mistrusted the electorate and was not above using questionable tactics to shape policies and institutions in ways that would prepare America for the greatness that was-he was sure-its destiny. In contrast, Jefferson, paragon of the Age of Reason and son of the landed gentry, was a true revolutionary of his time, a passionate apostle of individual liberty who believed that governments are, at best, a necessary evil...
...President cannot succeed himself. General Emilio Médici, the current President, therefore announced last week that the ruling military junta had been searching for a man of "moral and intellectual depth . . . unquestionable knowledge . . . experience," a man who could provide the nation with "progress, well-being and happiness." This paragon, to no one's surprise, turned out to be another military man, ex-General Ernesto Geisel, 65, president of the state-owned petroleum monopoly, Petrobrás. Geisel must be approved by the electoral college before he is inaugurated for a five-year term on March 15, but this...
...this doesn't mean that Dunlop was some paragon of virtue. His conservative stands on questions like University discipline, the Afro-American Studies Department and graduate student rights did much to undermine the halting progress being made at Harvard in the late sixties. He threw his weight behind the repressive Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, building a sequestered fortress for the CRR atop Holyoke Center so it could kick out dissidents in peace. He orchestrated the offensive against the Afro-American Studies Department which culminated in the restructuring of the Department in January: even after leaving for Washington, he explicitly...
...this doesn't mean that Dunlop is some paragon of virtue. His conservative stands on questions like University discipline, the Afro-American Studies Department and graduate student rights did much to undermine the halting progress being made at Harvard in the late sixties. His positions were undoubtedly no more reactionary than those his colleagues in the Administration or the Faculty, but his talent at translating them into reality made him a more effective roadblock to progress...
...Paris lawyer. On the verge of middle age, he has settled in the suburbs with beautiful wife Helene (Francoise Verley) and child, and she guards his middle class stability unquestioningly. Although his paunch is beginning to bloom and puffiness wells the contours of his face, he considers himself a paragon of maleness. He is a girlwatching connoisseur, and escapes the anxiety prone hours of late afternoon by shopping in the city, where he visually exercises his bored and spoiled sexual appetite...