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...paradox is explained by simple chronology--Cambridge history, for the most part, had been written by 1900. And that's when the Italians began to arrive. Of the 5 million Italians who immigrated to America, 4, million arrived between 1880 and 1920, with the vast majority just before...
Reagan and his aides are expecting a recurrence of a traditional paradox: conservative Republicans with impeccable anti-Communist credentials have got along better with the rulers in Moscow than have liberal Democrats. Cracked a Soviet official recently: "At least we can be confident that Reagan would not invite Brzezinski to stay in the White House." As though to encourage just that sort of thinking in Moscow, Allen says, "While Reagan would be firm toward the Soviets, he would also be consistent and prudent; he would not be truculent or confrontational...
...Awash in his hard-won Catholic faith, T.S. Eliot spun Murder in the Cathedral in 1935 out of the stuff of the ritual he was preoccupied with and the metaphysical poetry he esteemed. Since then, its readers have appreciated its poetic merit, but its audiences have sat uncomfortably as paradox and conceit flew by, just out of their grasp...
Harrington's analysis contains an important and troubling paradox. He consistently argues that America's problems are structural, but he rejects as politically impossible radical structural changes such as a complete overthrow of capitalism. He doesn't explain how he can accomplish the reforms he proposes--direct challenges to capitalist assumptions--without changing the capitalist system. As the example of the Allende government in Chile indicates, democratically-elected socialist governments may have to combat a lack of business confidence or outright business sabotage. As head of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), Harrington is committed to peaceful change and socialist...
Chassin added, however, that Bok presented a paradox. "These kinds of reforms take time, and with only four years, students will not be around to enjoy the benefits of their efforts," Chassin said