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...turned this disparate collection of players into a unified league beater is soft-speaking, second-year Coach K.C. Jones. A paradigm of defensive skill during his nine seasons with the Boston Celtics, Jones insists that his players complement their effective fast break with unrelenting defensive pressure. As a result, the Bullets are now the second stingiest team in the league. "We believe offense is for shooters and defense is for all five guys," says Jones. "Fortunately, our starters are all shooters...
...says she is through with leftist politics, because the ideas of the left are "not particularly relevant to what's going on today" and are "basically destructive to women." Though she is a minor figure in the rise and fall of the New Left, her career is a paradigm of the retreat from politics to more personal concerns. Young white activists of the '60s were chiefly concerned about injustices done to others. For Alpert, selflessness must go. As a radical feminist of the '70s, she seeks "an identity not with other people's oppression, but with...
Until recent weeks, James Angleton was a paradigm of his arcane trade. Cultivated in taste, shrewd in intellect, and above all discreet in his work for the CIA, Angleton, 57, was in the twilight of a distinguished career...
...Manson of letters, coolly destroys the writer's notes and manuscript for a book about Thomas Love Peacock, a 19th century writer of burlesque romances (who is, incidentally, one of Fowles' favorite writers). The Enigma, a marvelous piece of illusion, describes a London police sergeant's search for a paradigm of Establishment life in the form of a conservative M.P., who has, perhaps deliberately, disappeared...
...Humane Paradigm. Arafat tried to distinguish his respect for the Jewish faith from his hatred of Zionism and appealed to his Jewish listeners to abandon the cause of Israel. "Let us remember that the Jews of Europe and the U.S. have been known to lead the struggles for secularism and the separation of church and state; they have also been known to fight against discrimination on religious grounds. How do they then refuse this humane paradigm for the Holy Land...