Ms. Franklin, for all the commercial glitter of her long and distinguished career, remains a symbol of the American civil rights movement.
In the two brief years that he led the Justice Department, Mr. Levi set an example of respect for the Constitution and the rights of Americans that remains a benchmark for distinguished public service today.
But, while the central role has lured performers of the highest rank, no director of equal stature has tackled so redoubtable a theme, and the strange fact remains that the most distinguished film, by far, with which Churchill was involved was one that he despised.
My favorite "Ariadne" remains Herbert von Karajan's magisterial 1954 performance with the Philharmonia Orchestra and a distinguished cast, including Elizabeth Schwarzkopf as Ariadne, Rudolf Schock as Bacchus and Irmgard Seefried as the Composer.
Geoffrey Blainey remains one of our most distinguished historians, but 30 years on from his intervention, we can comfortably say that history does not judge him kindly on the issue of Asian immigration.
Since then, biologists have found a few surviving animals, but the species remains "intensely vulnerable," said William F. Laurance, distinguished research professor at James Cook University in Australia, who said that in the future heat waves would probably be the "death knell" for a number of cold-adapted species.
Even today [1944], condemned to a use so different from that for which it was designed, it remains one of the most distinguished of the earlier buildings of New Orleans".
About this verse, the Italian commentator Sforno writes: It is not proper for you to show extreme concern and pain for the death of a relative, when a more honorable and distinguished relative still remains, in whom there is hope for ultimate good.
Peyton's performance remains of the kind that a distinguished nonathlete such as myself can find inspiriting, since it is, or seems, so purely cognitive.
