Word: paradox
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...face twitched when McGinniss broached the subject years ago), that he felt left out of the family, and that he had a lousy childhood and marriage. The book seems obsessed with debunking the Kennedy myth, as if it needed debunking. And nowhere does it explain Ted's fundamental paradox: that a man so self-destructive stuck so willingly to the daily tilling of the legislative field and left such a profound mark on his country...
...Somalia the paradox returns. There is no such thing as just feeding the hungry, if what's keeping them from eating is not crop failure but vandalism and thuggery. One has first to destroy the vandals and the thugs. In a country racked by civil war, what starts with feeding ends with killing. There is no immaculate intervention...
...Kennedy--or, more appropriately, when he converses with you--the two pictures become oddly necessary. A single photo can give you only an attenuated version of David Kennedy; One side of a coin. A joke without its punch line. Choose your own cliche--David is a "living, breathing paradox," as one of his friends...
...dividends. On average, dividend payouts currently equal just 2.8% of stock prices, the lowest yield since August 1987. "The market has rarely been this high in terms of price to earnings or dividends," says James Grant, an investment-magazine editor who predicts a break in prices. "The eternal paradox is that people will buy more cars or canned goods when the price is down, but they seem to buy more stocks when the price...
...believe that magical realism can take place even in the practical, level-headed United States of America. This is what makes Hijuelos' novel so magnificent, for it is a novel inspired by America and written for America. It depicts a U.S.A. that welcomes all possibilities and delights in paradox...