Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is] an interesting paradox: those who stand against a conviction of human sinfulness are here testifying through their own actions to the truth of the position they oppose. Professor Niebuhr, a strong "social gospel-ite," continually stresses man's "indeterminate possibilities" of goodness on earth, although . . . there is always the added warning that . . . the Kingdom of God ... is forever "beyond" the world...
...Most Ingenious Paradox."Niebuhr is at his characteristic best when he wields the flashing, two-edged sword of paradox: his book's most brilliant chapters are titled "The Power and Weakness of God" and "Mystery and Meaning." In the first, he cites the symbol of Christ crucified as the great reconciliation of two apparent irreconcilables-God's all-powerful goodness, and the power of evil in the world. In God's own willingness to submit to His creature man's free will, says Niebuhr, His final majesty-mercy-is revealed. In "Mystery and Meaning...
...that the responsibility for the cutback lies at the doorstep of University Hall, President Conant last week in a letter to the Student Council announced that there was no financial stringency involved in the tutorial limitation. He said further that the responsibility for tutorial rests entirely with the Faculty. Paradox? And further complicated by Mr. Conant's assurance that he stands four square behind Provost Buck, the implied target of Faculty complaints...
George Santayana, a wit once said, "believes that there is no God and that Mary is His mother." Last week the suavest living philosopher further compounded the paradox. At 82, he published The Idea of Christ in the Gospels (Scribner; $2.75), probably his most important book. It is also probably the most devout book ever written by an unbeliever: it suggests that' Santayana is a far better Christian, and scarcely less orthodox, than the vast majority of believers...
...takes place for the most part amid deep drifts of Hollywood snow (shaved ice and raw white corn flakes), as Hope and Crosby, assisted by a talking fish, a talking bear, a dynamite-carrying dog and Santa Claus and his reindeer, mush their Malemutes through a Klondike blizzard of paradox and punning...