Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the biggest paradox of the entire production is the fact that the finest acting is done by a Yale man. Edmon Ryan, in the part of the lawyer who eventually solves everyone's problems, plays his role with a sureness that is quite refreshing and which stands out more than do Miss Corio's obvious charms...
This, exploded Senator La Follette, was "the most startling exposure of prostitution of the patent laws . . . ever seen." Yet it was also, perhaps, a perfectly legal use of the monopoly that a patent grants to its owner. It floodlights the paradox of patent protection v. restraint of trade-and the lengths to which large corporations will go to avoid lawsuits and "destructive" competition...
Altogether, it was a strange situation. On the surface, the German Fleet was hiding in its snuggeries. The paradox under this fact was that the Nazi Fleet was actually on the offensive, the British Fleet on the defensive...
Lastly, by pointing out merely the paradox of such anti-democratic action, the editors did not go far enough in their analysis. The students must be made to realize that the Detroit incident is only one fact of the huge attempt to divide the American people and provide propaganda for fascist agents among our present and prospective allies. Klansmen and Christian Fronters are not only had Americans, but more importantly, very good Nazis. Their crime is not so much against the constitutional rights of a minority but against the national effort to smash Hitlerism. Harvard Inter Race Council
...Congress against the reactionary Clare Hoffman of Michigan. Mr. Sandburg hasn't committed himself one way or another on his candidacy, though the pressure for him to decide in the affirmative is fortunately increasing daily. If such a political contest were to take place, it would dramatically underline the paradox of the two different kinds of democracy for which Americans are fighting today. On the one hand would be Carl Sandburg representing the forces believing in progressive, twentieth-century democracy, and on the other Clare Hoffman, the little white god of believers in stagnant, Victorian democracy--the status quo boys...