Word: oxymoronality
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When I began Harvard in the fall of '89, the Soviet Union was still referred to as "The Evil Empire," South African democracy was an oxymoron, the Berlin Wall was still a wall and Palestinian resistance to Israel's presence in Gaza and the West Bank was at an all-time high...
...Harvard community" used to have as its unequivocal basis a shared commitment to truth. Apparently, some people now want diversity to be the basis of Harvard's community life. But a "diverse community" is an oxymoron. One cannot find true diversity in a true community. Quite the opposite, a community is defined by its homogeneity; it must hold to a definite set of interests and have a clear sense of what distinguishes it from other communities...
...Liberators," have forced Veritas back into my mind. What motto would Harvard have chosen for itself if it had been established in the past decade? "Truth" these days is not a very politically correct word. So heartless. So unyielding. I used to think that a malleable truth is an oxymoron, but apparently no longer...
...modern-day Zhuge Liang: University of Pennsylvania professor Lawrence Klein. The American Nobel laureate in economics in 1980 was appointed as an adviser to the State Planning Commission, which oversees the industrial sector. They hope Klein's wisdom can help them build a "socialist market economy," Deng's newest oxymoron...
While a step-by-step, managed transition is to be encouraged, it is not necessarily to be expected. As Gorbachev himself inadvertently demonstrated, reform communism is an oxymoron. The Chinese Communists may ultimately learn the same truth, even though they bought the system some time with blood on Tiananmen Square. The late Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania, a great friend of the Great Leader, provided a corollary: the more retrograde and repressive the regime, the more violent its fall. Its strength is brittle; it will not bend, but it will break. Open the door to a country like North Korea...