Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paradox is that while Israel has long warned against the danger of Iraq, it is, by force of circumstance, in no position to take action. Washington has made it clear, and Shamir's government has conceded, that Western interests are best served if Israel lies low. Any assertive Israeli intrusion might jeopardize the delicate accord the U.S. has reached with its Arab allies or give Saddam an excuse to turn the crisis into an anti-Israeli crusade...
Bush is gambling that the liberal coalition that launched the fight against Bork will be stymied by a paradox: nothing could be more difficult than to draw battle lines on a blank slate. While there is ample evidence of the quality of Souter's intellect -- magna cum laude Harvard graduate, Rhodes scholar, Harvard law -- most of his judicial experience has been on New Hampshire's state supreme court, which is more likely to consider auto- insurance cases and commercial litigation than divisive social issues like abortion and affirmative action. Elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston only last...
...second section succeeds precisely where the first one fails, as Ash traces the changes in Hungary to the statesanctioned reburial of 1956-hero Imre Nagy. By acknowledging his enemy, Ash explains from the streets of Budapest, Janos Kadar, a darling of the West, made his own rule an unresolvable paradox. The ensuing changes were inevitable...
...that his revolution would, after all, have to come from above. Having vowed fealty to the party's monopoly on power, he swiftly turned around and presided over its abandonment. In its place, he built a structure of government with himself at the pinnacle. The result is the central paradox of his rule: "The more he sought to disperse power, the more he found it necessary to concentrate power in his own hands." But as Doder and Branson point out, "Russia is a country that fervently needs an ideology, a set of beliefs, a religion." Much of the dogma that...
...great summing-up of Matisse's experience in North Africa occurred several years after he had returned to France, in The Moroccans, 1915-16. In that dense, grand and mysterious painting, the intensity of light is evoked, with all the courage of paradox, with a predominant velvety black. The ambiguous forms -- Are the green curved objects in the left foreground melons, as some think, or the backsides of Muslims praying to Mecca? -- combine in a pictorial structure of wonderful explicitness and rigor. One sees in the work painters who would not be born for another 20 or 30 years: Frank...