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Word: oxymoronality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Here, after all, is the great champion of small, limited government perpetrating the Louisiana Purchase, arguably the grandest exercise of extra-constitutional Executive power in American history. But what else should we expect from the founder whose great vision of America was the Empire of Liberty, as profound an oxymoron as political theory can provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Jefferson: The Sublime Oxymoron | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...baby boomers, the museum freezes under glass that deceptively innocent era, roughly from the late '60s to the late '70s, when the phrase recreational drugs had not yet become a tragicomic oxymoron. In addition to the paraphernalia collection--which resembles nothing so much as a college dorm room circa 1975--there are photos of such icons of the day as Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Timothy Leary (twice!), as well as the shorter-lived Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drug Culture Gets a Museum | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...Friends of the Arts, Long Island's oldest and most respected non-profit performing arts group, might change that. The organization aims to enrich the cultural life of Long Island (which might seem like an oxymoron) through world-class performances and arts education for kids...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don't Fret, Get a Job | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

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