Word: exemplar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a pet shop and is entangled in a bleak, Kafkaesque nightmare while trying to return it. Painting a surprisingly harsh portrait of Communism's common man, Evald Schorm, 34, debunks bureaucracy with unmuffled freedom in his Courage for Every Day. Chosen by a magazine as the exemplar of the socialist ideal, a factory worker stumbles over every slogan, ends by trying to numb his senses with sex and alcohol...
...foreign aid program was known as one of Washington's quickest routes to early retirement. In its first 13 years, the program consumed no fewer than nine directors, none of whom lasted longer than two years. By such standards, the program's tenth director has been an exemplar of endurability. Last week, when David E. Bell, 47, turned in his resignation as administrator of the Agency for International Development, he had put in a record three and a half years...
...fellow men even when he can no longer stand to be polite to them. Montand's wife, Simone Signoret, as the fading actress, establishes the aura of attractive pathos that has become her trademark. And their daughter, Catherine Allegret, who plays the young girl, is a charming exemplar of wholesome patience and competence...
...Golf, No Fishing. Throughout his long lifetime, Alfred Sloan was certainly the exemplar of his own advice. His total dedication was to General Motors. He never smoked, seldom drank, disliked partygoing, scoffed at golf and fishing as wastes of time, rarely read anything other than corporate reports. He and his wife, Irene Jackson Sloan, had no children, lived quietly in their apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. The Sloans gave to charities with magnificent openhandedness; their philanthropy over the years has been estimated at more than $300 million, including $18 million to M.I.T. and $31 million to the Memorial...
...rated first-class. Today Manhattan boasts a dozen-two of them are his, and most of the others are owned or staffed by his proteges. When he died last week of a heart attack at 62, his Le Pavilion was still the best of them all, the undisputed exemplar of haute cuisine in the U.S. and, by the judgment of the incorruptible Guide Michelin's Pierre Lamalle, the equal of the five best restaurants of Paris-which is to say, of the world...