Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevin is no Utopian internationalist. He is fighting for one world, but he is also fighting for king & country. With this sane and simple paradox-which is as sane and simple as Ernie Bevin-he had captured the imagination of millions who believe firmly in both nationalism and world government. Many saw him suddenly as the great defender of the West. To some extent he was-though capitalists who counted on Bevin to preserve the West of free enterprise were likely to find some day that they had bought a large and ferocious pig in a poke. Bevin believes with...
...present paradox in having social and clinical psychology and social anthropology grouped under the heading of natural sciences is solved by divorcing these subjects from their former departments and incorporating them with the entire Sociology Department under the new title...
...year which had begun in the certainty of war ended in the confusion of paradox...
Infinite Puzzle. This seemed no paradox to Harry Truman. But the problem went deeper. The world, obviously, would not accept a U.S. trusteeship. The Germans had started the race for the bomb; the Japanese had been experimenting, too. Now the Russians started working furiously. Any other nation with the inclination and the money could get into the race, and some of them doubtless would...
...Paradox...