Word: oxymoronality
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...Chamber music composed and performed by indie-rockers may seem like an oxymoron, but this group of excellent musicians pull it off with flair. Tickets $12. Brattle Theatre...
Later in the address, Safire's comment that "respectable journalism is an oxymoron" drew laughter among his peers...
...comes historian Linda Lear with Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (Henry Holt; 634 pages; $35), a probing and scrupulously footnoted account of this extraordinary woman's life. Carson was a publishing oxymoron--a prodigy who published her first essay in St. Nicholas Magazine at age 11, and a late bloomer who found success as a writer only in her 40s. Through letters and interviews Lear reconstructs an early life in which Carson had to defer dreams of becoming a scientist in order to help support her family following the failed schemes of an ineffectual father and tragedies that befell hapless...
...have been busy authoring, cashing in with truckloads of books about you and your child. The trend has even touched the fluffiest genre of nonfiction, the self-help book. Commercially, the match is a natural; intellectually, it's problematic. A self-help book about child rearing is almost an oxymoron. Self-help literature, as the name implies, proceeds from a claustrophobic obsession with self--how to improve the self, how to make the self feel better about itself and, pre-eminently, how to make the self rich. But being a parent renders self-absorption impossible. Having kids may improve...
Regardless of all of these shortcomings, however, there is another, purely practical reason to dismiss libertarianism--the reason why the American people dismiss it. Contemplate for a few moments what it would be like to live in a truly libertarian society (a lovely and noxious oxymoron). Even the most self-congratulatory Harvard student would find it unrewarding and destructive. I hope...