Word: paragons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moreover, Allen in his understated way was voicing some stunning heresies--stunning for an AT&T head anyway. The company had long been almost synonymous with Big Business, and for more than a century a paragon of vertical integration--the tying together of suppliers and customers into one company. But now Allen calls vertical integration "an idea whose time has passed" and says that "we've reached the point where the advantages of our size will be offset by the time and costs in coordinating and integrating sometimes conflicting business strategies." Translation: the company's parts, notably telephone service...
...spiritual. Her orgasms are liberating, exhausting visits to a land where he is king. ("Robert," she exclaims in postcoital awe, "you're so powerful, it's frightening!") In the age of facetiousness, could any director film this without giggling? Would any actor dare display himself as such a paragon of pagan love...
...learn the basics of history or art or literature at the paragon of higher education that is Harvard University, then I'm going to pack it in and head for my local community college...
Your attitude should extend beyond the sphere of your writing into your personal life. The paragon of Harvard opinion-makers, Rob Wasinger '94, was known by every student and administrator in his days at Peninsula. Wasinger led a one-man crusade against the Liberal Menace. Like him, you should remember that it's more important to be remembered than to be believed...
...next question was equally patronizing and arrogant, typical of a Harvard mind. Was this lady crazy? Didn't she understand that Harvard is the very paragon of enlightenment? She needed to get a grip on reality. Harvard teaches math, political science, physics, English. Its students and teachers are the best thinkers and human beings around...