Word: oxymorons
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...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...
...screwed up," Dershowitz said. "The phrase 'Soviet lawyer' is an oxymoron. It's like 'Justice Rehnquist...
Kurzman's editorial purports to deal with the nature of the student-athlete (a term he puts within quotation marks, as if it is either a falsehood or an oxymoron). On what does he base his unfavorable estimation of Harvard athletics? He admits that he "[has] yet to read about Harvard's recruiting and admissions practices for potential big-sport athletes." The story he relates regarding the "anti-intellectual" attitude of Harvard athletes is "undocumented." In the face of the writer's admitted ignorance on the subject, how does he reach his conclusions? Obviously, the source of Kurzman's information...
...what exactly is Gardener's "it"? The movie's subtle texture, effortlessly impelled by Gardener's deft editing, reveals that "it" is the sense of death that pervades daily life. Like cinema verite, "it" is based on an oxymoron. Forest of Bliss actually reasserts life by concentrating on the ceremony of dying. Vitality and color, charisma and charm, abound in the visages of the living inhabitants, most notably the fire seller, whose joie de vivre consumes the screen. And this juxtaposition of life with death necessitates audience observation, not verbal explanation...
...simmers and frets and generally acts betrayed. The man who has come to represent genial Mr. Coffee is nothing but an oversized gum-chewing adolescent, as idiotically captivated by his own fame as are his fans. The big brute is more than just a moron, he's an oxymoron...