Mr. Ravitch said Mr. Brownstein was also an indefatigable champion of New York City during its 1970's fiscal crisis when he worked to rewrite mortgages on which the city had defaulted.

Hard, cool, detached, farsighted, not in love with power for power's sake, Rome's indefatigable champion.

I have been Rome's faithful guardian, her indefatigable champion.

Mr. Harris, the pianist who is one of the great musicians to come out of Detroit in the 1950's, remains an indefatigable champion of bebop-era music - a Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk man through and through.

So Mr. Coover, an indefatigable champion of hypertext, organized the conference to bring the writers together with the people who make the software.

The Mexican composer and conductor Carlos Chávez ran it for four years, then Dennis Russell Davies, that indefatigable champion of all things new, was music director from 1974 to 1990.

He was an indefatigable champion of parental choice in education through school vouchers for students in private schools.

He was also an indefatigable champion of financing for basic research, which he saw as the key to progress in medicine.

These artifacts are enclosed in glass cases, as is the plaster cast of a couple accompanied by a young girl with book in hand - evidently a work by that indefatigable champion of ordinariness, John Roger.