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...greatest contemporary evils (it is significant, he notes, that the Soviet Union has produced great spies but ngreat spy novelists). Yet his name appeared on an ad favoring British sanctuary for American Army deserters. Clearly such an author has not only written about but lived a central paradox. Allen Dulles, onetime head of the CIA, acknowledged the paradox when he wrote: "The question is whether we can improve our security system, consistent with the maintenance of our free way of life and a free press...
Harvest 1977 has been a time of paradox for American farmers: a season of too much and too little. In the Northwest and parts of the Midwest and central California, many grain growers were staggering under the effects of the worst drought in decades (see map page 18). Yet in most of the rich cornfields of the Central U.S. and the sweeping grain belt of the Great Plains, the rain came when it was needed. The land responded generously-and now Jimmy Carter's Administration is grappling with the problem of what to do with the immense bounty...
...cruel paradox that in the midst of general prosperity, America has spawned a hard-core group of disaffected people-an all but lost generation of men and women almost permanently without jobs, without education, and without hope of getting either. Our cover story, written by George Russell and researched by Nation Reporter-Researchers Anita Addison, Edward Adler and Agnes Clark, examines this under class and the overwhelming problems that set it apart even among the poor...
...enigma and paradox of the so-called Messianic Jews are that they have apparently rejected their own (and Jesus') Judaism, of which many seem to be quite ignorant, in favor of someone else's (Paul's) Christianity...
...muses one Saudi Arabian businessman about his country's frenetic pace of development. His comments point to a paradox of swiftly growing importance for the world economy. By many of the standard measures of power, Saudi Arabia should be a weak state. Its population is sparse: only 7.5 million people in a country twice the size of Western Europe. Its army is tiny: a mere 35,000 men. Economically, the country is only in the beginning stages of industrialism. It suffers from what elsewhere would be debilitating inflation (prices are rising about 40% a year), and so many...