Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cultivate a democratic style of authority in French society. The crucial importance of France's political problems is emphasized through the various studies, especially those of Hoffmann and Goguel. Both men point out that France's political problems involve non-political elements as well. Hoffmann concludes that the final paradox of the French political system is just this, that "reforms in the political system alone will not be enough to bridge the gap" between the political system, and economic and social progress. "Reforms at all levels of the political community" need to be introduced, not just constitutional reform...
...cultivate a democratic style of authority in French society. The crucial importance of France's political problems is emphasized through the various studies, especially those of Hoffmann and Goguel. Both men point out that France's political problems involve non-political elements as well. Hoffmann concludes that the final paradox of the French political system is just this, that "reforms in the political system alone will not be enough to bridge the gap" between the political system, and economic and social progress. "Reforms at all levels of the political community" need to be introduced, not just constitutional reform...
Although the U.S. produces far more food than its people can possibly eat. the U.S. Government is footing the bill for $97,000 worth of research into the medical problems of starvation. The paradox makes its own kind of sense. U.S. doctors want to know the most efficient forms of certain food substances, especially proteins. And since starvation at home is too rare for large-scale study, the project has been set up in South Africa, where Cape Town provides an ideal laboratory. There, a modern medical school is located near a population with such abysmally low living standards that...
Poems by Lamplight. Frost was so completely a part of the present-day life of America that it was often hard to realize that he had been born during the Administration of Ulysses S. Grant. Another paradox: this professional Yankee was born in San Francisco, the son of a transplanted New England editor-politician. But his father died when Frost was eleven, and his mother took him back to what was to become his native soil. He tried two colleges (Dartmouth, Harvard), and quit both. In the years that followed, he scrabbled out an existence on a New Hampshire farm...
...very nice piece of work, and when the Perrys tried to get the backing of a major studio, they were not-as custom would have it-turned away icily by the crass boobs of Hollywood. They were just turned away. It lacked size, and the great paradox of movie financing is that it's easy to milk fortunes out of Hollywood for high-budget stupendaganzas, but next to impossible to get a couple of hundred thousand for a low-budget picture. "We can't afford to make small pictures," said U.A. "We have too much overhead." The dimensions...