Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corruption & Cure. The title figure and unlikely hero of Bloomfield's parable is a maker and seller of pornographic books and pictures, whose name is Samuels, or perhaps Samson, as is noted in files of the London police. The uncertainty reflects the book's focal paradox: Sammael is the angel of death, but Samson, as the author explains (stoutly refusing to allow himself the joys of obscurantism) means "of the sun, solar." The bookseller is subverter, protector, panderer and priest to a group of curious cripples-Julius, his bloodless, asexual young assistant; Louise, a housewife whose husband thinks...
Never was a victory more infamous and an aggression more callous. Coming from Mr. Nehru, the greatest protagonist of unilateral goodness and peace next to Jesus of Nazareth, this is the height of paradox...
...remain neutral, in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color, was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate . . . How great is the paradox and how much greater the honor that an award in support of peace and the brotherhood of man should come to one who is a citizen of a country where the brotherhood of man is an illegal doctrine...
...Delicate Paradox...
Perhaps sensing the inadequacy of his argument, however, Piel descends to another level to bolster it. Here he is--for better and for worse--on more familiar ground: civil defense is an illusion because it rests on "a delicate paradox," that while its purpose is to minimize the loss of life in the event of an attack, its effect may be to increase the probability of an attack...