Word: paragons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Tower-and should do much better. He will probably never bump into anyone or anything, never pause for idle chatter or flirtation, or stop for more than 42 seconds at any one desk -indeed, never veer from any of his appointed rounds. If his fellow Sears employees find this paragon irritatingly inhuman, they can be excused. For the methodical new mailboy is a robot...
...skillfully tightened plot and imaginative details of direction make the pasteboard figures of the original Pericles into fuller, livelier characters. Pericles becomes almost a spoof as a paragon of nobility, rising early to practice his jousting while the other revelers of the night before stagger on stage with crushing hangovers. Dionyza's jealousy becomes a real facet of personality in the slinky character onstage, while in the original it is an awkward device to advance the plot. Sections of the new play are quite comic, but the heroes are never ludicrous. This is a difficult task for any company...
...third and final volume of The Americans, Daniel Boorstin chronicles the making of the American democratic experience and the unmaking of the democratic paragon. It is a sad book with an all too tragic tale to tell...
Even after marrying Paulus in 1924, Hannah did not exactly become a paragon of virtue herself. She dallied with their male friends and an academic assistant, and even got Tillich's explicit permission for one liaison. Hannah also experimented with-and rejected-lesbianism and at times unsuccessfully tried to interest Paulus in a joint sexual arrangement with another couple...