Word: contradictions
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...through the play is a constancy reference to the Bible, quoting passages which contradict each other in supporting and denouncing slavery. But in the end it is a misuse of Scripture that brings on Savior Vesy's end: "All these twelve years," he muses, "I give my people hope with the story of Moses. I never tell them Moses never reach the Promised Land...
...adds that 1948 is actually the beginning of a new ebb tide for the G.O.P. and the start of another Democratic era. For support he points to the Congressional by-elections, the mayoralty races, and polls of 1947, all of which swung toward the Democrats and seemed to contradict the long-standing prediction of A. M. Schlesinger, Sr. that the U.S. is in for a Conservative...
...impossible to do this without a certain degree of falsification, because the surface of the earth is a spherical surface whose pattern cannot be reproduced accurately upon a plane . . . An atlas meets the problem by giving us two different maps of the world which can be compared . . . They contradict each other to some extent at every point. . . So it is with the paradoxes of faith . . . not because the divine reality is self-contradictory, but because when we 'objectify' it all our judgments are in some measure falsified . . . The higher truth which reconciles them cannot be fully expressed...
...event-say, an automobile accident-would (if anybody were fool enough to collect them) fill a library: the metallurgical engineer's report, the traffic expert's report, the highway engineer's report, the psychiatrist's report, the oculist's report, etc.-and they would contradict each other. "All the facts" relevant to more complex events, such as the devaluation of the franc, are infinite; they can't be assembled and could not be understood if they were. The shortest or the longest news story is the result of selection. The selection...
...laughter. At one point he complained that musicians were too poor even to patronize the nightclubs in which they played. Illinois Republican Thomas L. Owens quoted back a statement of President Harry Truman's that everybody had a lot of spending money. Petrillo beamed. "I don't contradict the President," he said. "After all, as a piano player, he's a potential member of the union...