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These problems were the price to be paid for the very cultural isolation which spawned the blues. Guralnick is aware of the paradox of his sentiments; consider this sentence about Robert Pete Williams: "It may perhaps be necessary, then, to look on the prison blues as the product of a unique combination of genius and circumstances which, one would certainly hope, is not about to be repeated." Who wants to pay that kind of dues? The beauty of the blues is certainly born of suffering; but as B.B. King points out, everybody suffers in this life. The blues...
...image of McCarthy as philosopher-king made him a very attractive candidate to the intellectual community in the '68 presidential race. Here at last was a man who seemed to resolve the paradox of combining idealistic goals with political action; he was the easy way out of facing the conflict between idealism and politics...
...legislation in the 1930s? Last year Burger and Blackmun voted to invalidate Congress's extension of voting rights to 18-year-olds before the constitutional amendment had passed. Even so, many students of the court detect an air of passivity in the new alignment and this suggests a seeming paradox: the court may not actively resist legislative initiatives...
...westerly one. On the eastbound trip, the airborne clocks would be moving faster (by the speed of the jet) than a reference clock on the surface of the earth, which at the equator spins in an easterly direction at about 1,000 m.p.h. Thus, by Einstein's clock-paradox equation, the clocks on board should lose about one-hundred billionths of a second compared with another extremely accurate atomic clock left behind in Washington. During the westbound flight, however, the plane will be flying against the earth's rotation. To an observer in distant space, the clock...
Some theorists have refused to accept such fantastic consequences of the clock paradox and have sought to disprove it. They have even used the paradox in an effort to challenge all of relativity; for Einstein himself admitted that if only one part of his theory proved wrong, its whole finely structured mathematical edifice would crumble. In the September issue of Physics Today, Physicist Mendel Sachs takes a different tack. He contends that the Einstein theory and equations are correct, but that Einstein misinterpreted the equations in stating the clock paradox. A relativity theorist himself at the State University...