Word: oxymoron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memoirs, Menachem Begin wrote fiercely of the emergence of "the Fighting Jew." For much of Jewish history, through the long centuries of the Diaspora, that phrase was an oxymoron, a kind of contradiction in terms. Israel was the creation of fighting Jews, of course, but at least until the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel was the heroic and democratic underdog struggling for its very existence in the vast and hostile Arab wilderness. For a couple of thousand years, Jewish morality presupposed a kind of victim's righteousness, the special blamelessness of those without great collective power. Now Israel...
...Kennedy School yesterday, Atwood traced her development as a Canadian nationalist and a feminist. "For a long time, 'Canadian writer' was an oxymoron," she said...
...chapters in with only the barest bibliography and footnotes. When she got it back, Photo was dismayed that what was supposed to be the culmination of her academic experience was missing sentences, graphs, and equations. "One of my readers said it was an 'abysmal presentation,'" she says, adding an oxymoron: "I was the saddest magna going...
...another. Alcohol is not so much a pastime here as an obsession. It fuels frat row and on the several big weekends of the year, transforms Dartmouth College from school to oxymoron. "Sometimes we win, Sometimes we lose," one senior said philosophically. As if on cue, his brother ('78) chimed in, "But we're always drunk...