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(Those who think of California as a paragon of avant-garde thought may need reminding that the school-marms there succeeded in banning the sale of the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, in the 1970s, by which time one might have thought that their moral fiber would have caught up with their professed modernity.)
Is it possible that M&S are serious in invoking Archie Bunker, the archbigot of all time, as a model of understanding and a paragon of modern English usage?
That is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the educated elite, of which Lemann seems to be a paragon.
Is H. G. Rickover being held up to the user as a paragon of English usage?
It conjures up the picture of someone boning up on his “word for the day’ just before attending a cocktail party and then awkwardly trying to steer the conversation in such a way that he can insert a word like paradigm, paragon , or parameter .