Word: paradox
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...wife and humiliated by her pretentious petty-noble parents. In the bones of every 17th century comedy of manners, sophisticated or crude, there aches a bitter social criticism. Director Jean-Paul Roussillon has made farce into a quicklime laughter that burns to those bones. It is the paradox of modern directing to play a villain for his sympathetic qualities (as Stanislavsky counseled his actors); to play tragedy with a light touch; above all to play comedy straight. The maxim has worked trenchant revelation with English Restoration comedy; with Molière, from whom the Restoration playwrights learned, it rips...
THERE is a peculiar paradox in the latest list of 23 names currently being considered for the Harvard presidency. While it represents a very clear and definitive survey of the remaining candidates, the list must be seen only as a beginning, not an end. The list has been nine months in the making. For the most part it is the result of an arduous and painstakingly open narrowing of over 900 nominations. But it is important to note that many university search committees start with 23 names, and the Corporation's current plans to "go underground" for a final decision...
...slow rotation of a geometric "blip" of paint, happening a thousand times on one canvas) subvert, and at last explode, what would otherwise be a rigid order. "Everybody lives through states of disintegration but then finds something stronger that can't be disintegrated," she says. "The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order...
...slouch of a cynic. He is the professional journalist, selecting the amusing or exotic tidbit for the reader's jaded palate. He has seen too much to be shocked by anything or to believe in anything. He survives by his reflex for flippancy. Yet, by a curious paradox, Bloodworth's book eventually seems wiser and even more serious than Chomsky...
...advent of nuclear warfare has added a new chapter to the age-old paradox of the morality of war. Conventionality, not humanity, is the new criterion to rationalize the act of killing...