Word: oxymoron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...award is going to an economist for the first time, the NSF action should be seen as "recognizing the legitimacy of economics as a real science," Ubois said. "Some people think social science is an oxymoron...
PERCY HAS been called "our cool Dostoevsky," and the worst thing The Thanatos Syndrome reveals about him, I think, is that he isn't half as "cool" as he once was. That moniker's an oxymoron, by the way. Dostoevsky was never "cool"; his passion propelled him. But it's precisely Percy's understated anger that makes his prose, at its very best, bristle. There's a quiet, marvelous moment at the end of The Thanatos Syndrome where the angst of our condition comes pouring through...
...against Soviet dissidents but appropriate for supporting charges against accused Nazis of Baltic or Ukrainian descent. An unlikely coalition shares that view, including liberal former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who is Linnas' lead counsel, and conservative ex-White House Aide Patrick Buchanan, who has called Soviet justice an "oxymoron." Leading the other side are Jewish organizations, committed to punishing perpetrators of the Holocaust, and the Justice Department, which says it sometimes has no choice but to settle for Soviet evidence. "The documents and the witnesses who lived through this period are still in the Soviet Union," says OSI Director...
...reject the assertion that a group can prevent a man from moving as he pleases, force him to interact with a hostile crowd--and not violate his rights. Is a "symbolic blockade" anything but an obvious oxymoron...
...TERM "business ethics" is often considered an oxymoron. But across the river at Harvard Business School there are growing calls for inserting a mandatory course on that very subject into the curriculum for all MBA candidates...