Word: paradox
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...turns out to be more grateful and more malleable than she is able to show. At one of those horrendous self-criticism sessions that were a feature of institutional life under Stalinism, little Angi Vera rises to denounce herself for her romantic weakness, which has the effect-another paradox here-of ending her lover's party career and enhancing her own. The film is written and directed with a kind of deadpan subtlety (perhaps the only way it could be done in a country that is, after all, Communist). It is impossible to say if careerist calculation enters into...
...paradox in Carter's failures is that the voters keep turning out to support his candidacy for reelection. It is partly the same patriotic tendency that caused John Kennedy's poll ratings to rise after the debacle at the Bay of Pigs. But there are signs that Carter's extended Indian summer may be turning colder. In the wake of the U.N. uproar, Senator Ted Kennedy began attacking Carter forcefully on the issue; the dismay of pro-Israeli voters could become significant in the two big primaries just coming up: Illinois and New York...
...government had helped destroy freedom in Chile; he still subscribers to the 19th-century belief that a free market in the economic and political realms are interdependent. "The restoration of political freedom is impossible without a restoration of economic health," he wrote (Wall Street Journal, December 10, 1976). The paradox is that Harberger promulgated with missionary zeal his belief in the free economic market in a place where the free marketplace of ideas had been decimated...
...year-old group is moving impressively through that phonographic rite of passage for string quartets, a Beethoven cycle. The dramatic works in this installment burst the molds of classicism and prepare the way for the somber spirituality of the last quartets. The performances-strong and probing-capture the paradox of the quartet form: a cohesive ensemble but seemingly spontaneous individual voices...
...human behavior is concerned, to characterize the debate as biological determinism is a dangerous and specious rhetorical ploy. Learning has an evolved genetic basis with organized and discoverable characteristics leading to adaptation. Behavior can be, with no paradox, simultaneously the result of cultural and evolutionary forces, in equally meaningful but very different senses. Evolution shapes the nature of the developmental programming which guides learning, and socialization is the process by which the panhuman learning system adapts the individual to her or his cultural surroundings...