Word: paradox
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...world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave." But the psychiatrist can only throw up his hands with an admission of resigned incomprehension: "Why those moments of experience are particularly magnified no one can say." From one perspective, the psychiatrist's reflections seem a recognition of the paradox that plagues his profession; he has chosen to devote his life to understanding the human psyche, something that cannot ever be fully understood. Yet his statements have a broader significance for the audience, challenging each individual to justify his existence. As Dysart quotes the young Strang, paying homage...
...contrast to solo dancing, ensemble work requires each individual dancer to be as unobtrusive as possible, presenting the onlooker with the paradox of human forms assuming a fluid, abstracted aesthetic function. Thursday's swan maidens were polished, nestling together like the coils of a spring, swirling and clustering in their white skirts like blown dandelion seeds. On the other hand, Laura Young's Swan Queen was, for all her technical competence, thoroughly disappointing. The role is a showcase of breathtaking choreography, but Young moved from pose to pose as though composing the isolated frames of a film strip. A sense...
...still thought of as a paradox that the home of the Bolshevik Revolution is much more an empire now than it was under the Czars. The sun never sets upon it. Says Dimitri Simes, director of Soviet policy studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "A great diplomatic problem for the U.S. is that we often perceive Russia as an ideological, revolutionary state, which it is not." Beneath the vast surface of the Soviet Union, Simes argues, three elements have struggled...
Robert Seidenberg of Syracuse is one analyst who has bought the feminist argument. Says he: "We are confronted with the paradox that women are declared phobic when they exhibit anxiety in public places where custom, until yesterday, had prohibited them from entering. If one replaces the idea that the woman had the desire to sleep with father with the thought that she wanted to work with him in his downtown office, more salutary results might be obtained...
...glass-fronted room glowing out of the duck of Boston, the sophisticates peered and exclaimed much as they would have a century or more ago at the opening of a Paris Salon. While describing the "Painter of Modern Life" in the mid-19th century, Baudelaire had hinted of the paradox that attends modernity...