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...riding on a flood tide of popularity: a Harris poll released last week showed that 67% of adult Americans are behind him. Simultaneously, however, there were growing signs that Carter was in trouble with a startling array of prominent Americans, covering a wide spectrum of backgrounds and interests. The paradox is a fascinating and perplexing aspect of the new Administration. While winning such obvious broad support among Americans as a whole, Carter's style and policies may also be alienating the leaders whose help he may need to reach the ambitious goals that he has set for himself...
Oberon, played by Hohn Heseltine, has an amazing voice. There is a strange paradox to Britten's characterization of the role--the King of the Fairies has to have a high voice that contrasts with the voices of the humans. Heseltine manages to avoid the pitfall of sounding like a choir-boy. He sounds unearthly and commanding at the same time...
Preston Pollock recognizes the paradox inherent in "New Boston." "The Christian Science Center is a combination of pompousass architecture and corporate necessity," snaps Pollack, an architect at Professional Designs Incorporated. The Christian Science Church and its world headquarters, Boston's answer to the Vatican, focus the contradiction between collective needs and private purpose: a corporate monument rising symbolically above the decaying tenements of the poor and turning its back on the human needs of urban working people unable to buy a decent human environment. Pollock is an architect who must deal with contradictions like that--his firm is employed...
...also to every community in our nation. No one in Cincinnati has forbidden Larry Flynt to publish Hustler or burned any of his magazines. But while Flynt has a right to publish Hustler magazine, every community also has the right to declare it obscene. This may seem like a paradox, but obscenity, if left unrestricted, will produce a free society of smut peddlers...
WHILE THESE PROPOSALS highlight the difficulty of cutting the military budget when congressional interest in constituent jobs and business investments comes into play, they also exemplify a significant but resolvable paradox in liberal-initiated efforts to reduce defense spending. Pentagon supporters are quick to point out that major cutbacks in weapons procurement are likely to conflict with the goal of higher employment. This ironic justification of defense spending as a public jobs program has often proved to be a formidable obstacle to opponents of Pentagon spending...