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Those who know that English public schools are in fact private may go to the head of the class. You are clearly ready for a longer lesson in paradox. Open your copies of The Old School Tie and begin studying a system of education that has been bullying and beloved, tyrannical and anarchic, rigorous and howlingly inept. Memorize the ways in which a relatively insignificant number of masters and students created an ethos that spread, via the British Empire, worldwide. Questions will be asked later, and laggards can expect a caning...
...strange paradox that President Carter, who came to power with the sincere and laudable intention of improving human rights throughout the world, has through his U.N. representative, Andrew Young [July 24], almost certainly done just the opposite...
...women, the Annie Hallmark is tailored blazers, skirts and wrinkly fabrics, as exemplified in Calvin Klein's spring/summer collection. The paradox is that classic clothes end up looking like thrift shop purchases within a few steamy hours. One of the hottest-or coolest -fabrics around is Indian gauze, dyed with eggplant, saffron, cucumber and other natural substances, maybe even curry powder. Indian fabrics were among the highlights of a huge sales promotion of Indian merchandise mounted by Manhattan's Bloomingdale's last April. The material is so popular in New England that the Rhode Island-based...
Shaw was a born preacher who loved to toss firecrackers of paradox into the pews of respectability...
...recent editorial on Irven DeVore's Science Center lecture on human evolution, J. Wyatt Emmerich raises the spectre of Victorian Social Darwinism at Harvard, headquartered in the anthropology department. He accuses DeVore of being "out of his league." He wonders at the paradox of a talk on human evolution focusing on the behavior of Homo sapiens' predecessors; where is the paradox? He sagely asserts that DeVore "fails to understand that human beings are qualitatively unique organisms"; all animal species are "qualitatively unique." He links DeVore's studies to those of "sociobiology" in an apparent attempt to discredit DeVore through...