His moral and philosophical works, especially Della famiglia, De iciarchia ("On the Man of Excellence and Ruler of His Family"), and Momus, contain fresh reappraisals of traditional topics.
Although the republicanism of Florence was now eclipsed, and Alberti now moved as a familiar in the circle of the princely Lorenzo de' Medici, De iciarchia ("On the Man of Excellence and Ruler of His Family") represents in full flower the public-spirited Humanism of the earlier bourgeois age to which he belonged.
He and his identical twin, Joaquín, are scions of the west-side barrio political machine their mother helped build, and they were raised with the expectation that they would be leaders, young men of personal excellence and public spirit.
A man of unparalleled excellence: intelligent, diligent, generous, modest.
"Let's hope that the values transmitted to us by our founder -- the centrality of man, the excellence of science, and the freedom of research will be preserved," says Roncarolo.
– are far less attainable than the aspirational image of excellence men are presented with – he's a CEO! Which means we're not, on the whole, as stressed about failing to measure up.
Europe, particularly Western Europe, has the equivalent of an integrated club system, which has global standard of excellence professional men's teams at the top of the pyramid, which in turn support (financially) professional women's teams and the youth teams and infrastructure below.
Moreover, all recruited men underwent RP in centers of excellence by skilled urologists.
Writer Peter Morgan (re-teaming with Howard after Frost/Nixon) presents a rollicking tale of lunatics and dreamers, of men aiming for excellence in an era when a death toll of two or three drivers a year was part of the sport.
The exemplar for this kind of excellence — the man everybody points to as the superlative attorney general — is Edward Levi, who served under Gerald Ford.
