Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intertwining of education and politicshas resulted in a paradox...
...this paradox is a four-letter word: kids. Public service at Harvard revolves around children...
Think about all of today's advertisements that urge you to "Break the Mold," to "Topple the Tyranny" or to not do what the old bald men are telling you to do. The paradox and crisis of today, Frank would argue, is that you can break the mold and topple the tyranny all you want, but that's exactly what the corporate mold and tyrants want...
Such a mathematical anomaly requires explanation, but as far as I know, few mathematicians have been bold enough to attack the "Annenberg Paradox." The first to make such an attempt might have been Douglas Adams, world-renowned mathematician and author of the Hitchhiker's Guide series of books. His approach involved the highly interesting but as yet unapplied discipline of "bistromathics," which explains the strange fluctuations in mathematics that frustrate all attempts to calculate a restaurant check. Could the Annenberg Paradox merely be a special case of this theory...
...version, the sins are nevertheless integral to the man who emerges from Ackroyd's book, which was a No. 1 London Times best seller earlier this year and has been climbing several U.S. lists since being published here last month. Thomas More is not hagiography. Yet here is the paradox: it has the power of a second, secular canonization, establishing More, sans halo, as a martyr for a lost cosmic connectedness, the exemplar of a once commonplace mysticism that Ackroyd has evoked and mourned in recent work...