Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tends to produce a depressing civic stupidity. Each trait has about it the immobility of addiction. Victims become addicted to being victims: they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer, defaulting helplessness. On the other side, the candlesnuffers of behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox, accomplishing intolerance in the name of tolerance, regimentation in the name of betterment...
...long ago, preventing Armageddon was the only objective U.S. and Soviet leaders had in common. That is why the issue of arms control so dominated earlier summits. Yet there was always an underlying paradox about the enterprise: the arms to be controlled were the consequence, not the cause, of the hostility that infused U.S.-Soviet relations. The cause was a combination of ideology and geopolitics. The two leaderships differed profoundly over the treatment of the individual citizen by the state, and they had conflicting interests in every region of the world...
Still, Afro-Am concentrators don't give Rosovsky high ratings. Jeanne F. Theoharis '91, an Afro-Am concentrator and one of the students who protested the dearth of faculty hiring this fall, calls Rosovsky a "paradox...
...must have some meaning if Gott's and Thorne's ideas are correct, as they appear to be. Says Gott: "At some point physics will have to find some mechanism by which these things are forbidden, or else learn to live with them." With two examples in hand, the paradox can no longer be ignored...
...often do big Lowell parties (paradox?) rage well into the morning hours? Currier's architect had no respect for fashion, but the deepest respect for kegs. So we have a suite designed to allow the masses to party well after the College's absurd 1 a.m. limit...