Word: paradox
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...life of every man who fights in a just cause is a paradox. He makes war so that there should be peace. He sheds blood so that there should be no more bloodshed...
...last two decades at the Sackler continue some of those past interests: news-print as Surrealist collage in the Dutch Wives and the self-referentiality of reproducing his own earlier prints in the painting Untitled 1984. Critics have often noted Johns' latent interest in sensuous matter and conceptual paradox; those interests now reign supreme, as the older Johns contemplates the failure of the erotic, in addition to the link between sex and death (especially in the Tantric Details...
Stone is peddling an appealing thesis, because everyone is uncomfortably aware of the paradox that the sainted JFK was a good guy and that the Vietnam war was bad, bad, bad. How could the former be even partially accountable for the latter? To resolve that unseemly dissonance, Stone indulges in what is at best a ridiculous oversimplification of some very complicated politics, and at worst deceit...
Kammen, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1972 book, People of Paradox, focuses on three periods: the half-century after the Civil War; the years between the First and Second World Wars; the decades since World War II. At the risk -- or rather with the certainty -- of distorting Kammen's subtle and teeming narrative, one can say that America has evolved from a society that repudiated the past to a culture ambivalent about it, to a nation that has turned wistful and retrospective...
...that allow adults to be sued if minors drink in their home no matter whether the adults are aware of the drinking. High schools have added courses on alcoholism, and many colleges feature alcohol-awareness weeks, during which students pledge themselves to abstain from booze. But there is a paradox here that symbolizes the depth of the problem. All too often these instant Lents end with alcohol-fueled "I survived the week" blasts in frats and dorms. The party animal is a tough beast to tame...