It's a contradiction: individuality for the "superheads", whose distinction is everything, but homogeneity for everyone else.
Or rather, people whose distinction was unnoticed by the world at large, but which it became Swift's mission to portray in his books.
Indeed, the TV Cadillac drew more attention tha the supposed attraction, a Cadillac Eldorado whose distinction was that of being done up in white leather and ermine.
He remains a poet; one whose distinction is to reconcile aesthetic exploration with what happened to him in Now's decrepit train-and-van trips.
Since the demise a few months ago of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and its troubled investigative genius, Bobby Goren Vincent D'Onofrioo), television's top sleuths seem, on the whole, a depressingly ordinary lot, with the notable exception of Raylan Givens, in "Justified," whose distinction is that he is hilariously unconflicted about his own capacity for violence.
Though they crave lower taxes, the modern Tory right embodied by Liam Fox, the defence secretary, Tim Montgomerie, an influential blogger whose distinction between "mainstream" and "liberal" Conservatives is catching on, and backbenchers such as Mark Pritchard and Bernard Jenkin are not as preoccupied with economics as the "dry" Thatcherites of yesteryear.
He is important not because he leads to Mr JB Priestley but because he leads to Jane Austen, to appreciate whose distinction is to feel that life isn't long enough to permit of one's giving much time to Fielding or any to Mr Priestley".
Silver, working at 3M in Minnesota in 1968, developed a new kind of glue whose distinction was its unusual feebleness.
The central opponent of Campbell in this debate was Stevens, whose distinction between types of measurement scale was discussed above.
