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Herein lies the paradox. The economic prosperity that those defending the bourgeois consensus used as testimony to vindicate capitalistic elements in French society, in turn, gave rise to a clearer delineation between those who owned the means of production and those who did not. The peasantry and the displaced aristocracy that so often aligned with the amorphous bourgeoisie against the proletariat in times of social crisis is vanishing along with the obsolete ideas of the feudal hangover. The increasing rationalism that is intertwined with industrial capitalism allows the members of the maturing proletariat to better realize their own interests...
Throughout such comments runs a strange paradox: many executives profess faith in the strength of business in one breath, then voice grave worry about Carter's economic management in the next. Says John P. Thompson, chairman of Southland Corp., an operator and franchiser of convenience food stores that has its headquarters in Dallas: "I think 1978 will be a good year. It is starting off at a higher clip than 1977." Simultaneously, he grouses: "I think the business community to a man reflects the uncertainty he [Carter] has projected...
...evening is richest when Shaw tilts a lance in defense of a cause or breaks it over the head of a foe. Doctors and their medical pretensions are greedy frauds to Shaw, and he skewers them with paradox and irony. As a vegetarian, he amusingly pictures his funeral procession with his casket followed by the herds of cows, pigs and fowl that he has spared, all in white ties. He eulogizes Christ as a nonconformist and identifies with St. Joan as an "insufferable" know...
...weird but persistent paradox: some brilliant movies are sheer torture to sit through. Such is the case with Padre Padrone, the Italian television film that last spring became the first movie ever to win both the grand prize and the international critics' prize at the Cannes Festival. Padre Padrone has undeniable merits; it tells a fascinating true-life story in an innovative style. Yet somehow it never makes us care passionately about its people or its subject. Though there is reason to believe that this film will influence other films, many moviegoers may forget Padre Padrone as soon...
...this paradox is being explained. Pondering data from a massive study of coronary problems in five different areas-Framingham, Mass., Honolulu, San Francisco, Evans County, Ga., and Albany, N.Y.-Statistician Tavia Gordon of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., noticed an unusual correlation. Virtually all those with heart disease-regardless of age, sex or racial background-also had reduced levels of a substance called high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in their blood. By contrast, those free of atherosclerosis showed remarkably elevated HDL counts...