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For McGraw-Hill was, after all, in spite of its earnest literary veneer, a monstrous paradigm of American business.†
p. 18.3 *
Beyond doubt those words characterize Rudolf Hoss and the workings of his mind, an organism so crushingly banal as to be a paradigm of the thesis eloquently stated by Hannah Arendt some years after his hanging.†
p. 161.2
But having risen, having been galvanized by the impulse, I was with mysterious speed transformed into a triumphant paradigm of chickenshit.†
p. 228.1
She cannot tell if she is stirred more by Durrfeld's ideas or by his physical presence—perhaps it is a mingling of both—but she feels an honest, heartfelt reasonableness in what he has said, and certainly he does not in the least resemble the paradigmatic Nazi who has been the object of so much savage lampooning rage at the hands of the tiny liberal and radical elements around the university.†
p. 421.1
Washington suddenly appeared paradigmatically American, sterile, geometrical, unreal.†
p. 537.8

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