Word: paradox
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...play maintains a comic pitch even at its most tense and powerful moments. Billy turns his sense of betrayal and anger into a catalyst for self-knowledge as he incessantly jokes about his illness throughout the play. But this comic element underscores the paradox that the play adresses: the "insane" are more sane than the "sane." As Teddy jokes to Irene at one point, "He's insane, you know, which is advantageous...because it's curable, while sanity...
...generation, which has been assembled with meticulous scholarship by Elizabeth Broun at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 8), is to become sharply aware of the limits of the Ryder myth. He is like Poe -- so overwrought, yet so influential. One sees, not for the first or only time, the paradox of American art in its larval days: how its course could be deeply affected, and the enthusiasm of its artists unstintingly engaged, by works whose actual aesthetic merits often seem slight...
CHANT GREGORIEN (Harmonia Mundi). This collection of medieval liturgical songs, featuring the late countertenor Alfred Deller and the Deller Consort, illustrates the paradox of austere expression that is also voluptuous...
...Ellis Island was a paradox, a place where dreams bumped up against bureaucracy, it was no less a place where one of the most powerful currents of American life flowed by. Between 1892 and 1924, 12 million immigrants first touched U.S. soil there. Forty percent of all Americans can look back to an ancestor who passed through its doors. Abandoned more than three decades ago, Ellis Island reopens its doors this week as pure, potent symbol. After a ; seven-year, $156 million restoration, the most expensive single refurbishment in the nation's history, the main building has been transformed into...
...sure that a hundred years from now, people will look back on this era and shake their heads in disbelief in the same way that we look back on arsenic treatments for syphilis in the previous century. But that's in the long run. It's sort of a paradox. Here we have a field of research that I believe will totally change the face of medicine. The timetable is going to be slow enough that to the average person it won't seem like a revolution...