Moore, in movies from Crazy, Stupid, Love to Far From Heaven, has proved peerless at playing a certain kind of outwardly composed, smiley and sincere middle-class paragon who will do anything to keep the anxieties that are nibbling away at her from flashing across her face.
For this quintessentially English middle-class paragon-throwback?
In this metaphorical mirror, which reflects the period between the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the Massachusetts insurance company saw potential customers who imagined themselves as the couple in Rockwell's "Life Cycle" series -- white, middle-class paragons for whom the term American Dream might have been coined.
Marc Jacobs will never collaborate with H & M or Gap because he's too busy collaborating with himself: he's fighting in every weight class, a paragon of spread-thin integrity.
Neither is a paragon, and the class difference is as vital as any sexual preferences.
"A paragon of middle-class decorum, music director Fletcher Henderson ensured that the music never got too hot," Professor Suisman wrote.
The rock climbing classes, which are offered by Paragon Climbing Guides, take place in the Snow Canyon State Park or Crawdad Rock Climbing Park, the only private climbing park in the U.S. No experience is necessary, and guests can sign up for a two-day program of scaling the mountains.
You can see a paragon of the Composure Class having an al-fresco lunch at some bistro in Aspen or Jackson Hole.
In a city where white residents are becoming a minority of the voting population, the family-centric strategy has allowed Mr. de Blasio, who is Italian-American, to portray himself as a paragon of modern, middle-class, multicultural New York: Ms. McCray is black and the couple has two children, Dante and Chiara, 18.
But Obama's blitheness about politics may have less to do with race than it does with class — conservative commentators pegged her as a paragon of élitist leftism — or, more likely, for a daughter of blue-collar Chicago, with personal disposition.
In effect, it was argued, the United States as the über-capitalist paragon was ruled by a class of rich people who had no interest in social equity.
