Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make up his mind about the American audience. Waxing eloquent, he praised the public as "hungry for culture." In another place, however, he called the theatre a place "where men sleep and women try to look pretty and hold on until it's over." The explanation of this paradox is that (as every trouper knows) there are good audiences and bad audiences, one for one kind of vague generalization and another for its opposite...
...paradox that has fascinated all historians-of reason beside unreason, of rationalism beside blind faith-was never more sharply apparent than in the century (1558-1648) from Elizabeth to Richelieu and from Shakespeare to Descartes. It was a time when superstition was rampant; a king's touch would cure scrofula, corpses bled in the presence of the murderer, comets signified disaster-although Galileo was calmly regarding the heavens through a telescope that magnified 1,000 times. Witchcraft (in which Kepler believed) was widespread: the Archbishop of Trier found it necessary to burn 120 of his fellow Germans...
Higher Savings. Consumer spending is a paradox: it stood up better than most other indicators during the recession, but thus far it has lagged somewhat behind the recovery curve. Last week the Commerce Department announced that seasonally adjusted retail sales rose 1% from May to June, something less than hoped for. Sales were actually down 1% from June of 1960, and durable goods were off a full 5% from the pace a year ago. Among the notable laggards are autos and appliances, hardware and furniture. Says Louis Paradiso, the Commerce Department's chief statistician: "This time there is more...
...final sermon as Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher told worshipers in high-vaulted St. Paul's Cathedral of the paradox that enabled Britain to survive the end of empire. "Because of its inherited and passionate belief in freedom," said he, "British imperialism had at its very heart a disbelief in the ultimate Tightness of imperialism. For that very reason, the empire could grow out of being an empire into being a commonwealth...
...Mukasa gets slapped around by the hard-eyed police and thrown into a jail crammed with demented African cultists. Engineering an escape, McNair brings them all to a greater doom: abandonment for the half-mad aunt, betrayal for McNair and death for Mukasa. Stacey's message is a paradox: "To die is not to have been defeated, to live is not a conquering." In time, he suggests, understanding will be gained. But first, it seems clear, many Mukasas-and some McNairs-must pay the cost in blood...