Word: exemplar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie does that. It is a smart, affecting, easygoing fable with plenty of talent on both sides of the camera. The key ingredient is Hanks, the one actor whom the mass audience trusts as an exemplar of quality. He can sell a tough subject to tough customers because they know the film will not be so much about issues as about the decency with which his character faces up to them. That goes for Gump. "The film is nonpolitical," Hanks says, "and thus nonjudgmental. It doesn't just celebrate survival, it celebrates the struggle...
Unsurprisingly, Wills' military exemplar is the young Napoleon Bonaparte, whose dazzling early victories were based on mobility and constant attack. His antitype is the dithering Union general George McClellan, who seldom met a battle he couldn't find reason to avoid. The paradigm for politics is George Washington, who orchestrated history's most successful transition from monarchy to republicanism. Washington's achievement, as Wills sees it, was to bring "legal rule out of the false dilemma posed in revolutionary times -- either charisma or chaos." Wills' political antitype is Oliver Cromwell, who became as regal as Charles I, the Stuart king...
...logic of Congressional voting is only a symptom of a graver malady--one that has spread all the way to the Oval Office. The election mindset has become as deeply ingrained in our society as the Gallup poll. George Bush, our first exemplar of this, spent his entire four year "season of service" gearing up for the following season...
During Mobutu's early years as President, he was hailed as an exemplar of the new breed of postcolonial African leader. He brought a fragile unity to his country, built schools and hospitals and forged a nonaligned approach to foreign policy. But as Zaire reeled under his economic mismanagement, compounded by the 1973 oil shock and a sharp drop in the price of copper exports, Mobutu resorted to calamitous improvisation. Following a trip to China, he launched a showy "authenticity" campaign designed to reduce Western influence and return his country to its African roots. Many foreign assets were nationalized, giving...
Thus began a long-running campaign to turn the Body Shop into an exemplar of what Roddick calls the new business consciousness. The Roddicks launched projects to save the whales, to end the testing of cosmetics on animals, to help the homeless help themselves. As part of their new Trade Not Aid project, they search the world for indigenous people willing to squeeze oil from Brazil nuts, make paper from water hyacinths, weave back scrubbers out of cactus fiber -- anything that could provide the natives with income and the Body Shop with sales...