Word: paradox
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...been manipulated to misconstrue their own interest as coincident with the interest of the powerful interest group that dominates important decision-making. Thus the preservation of law and order, desirable in itself, becomes the preservation of the status quo, which promotes the de facto disenfranchisement of the majority. The paradox of the "consciousness" of the majority is such that it conceives of the present political system as in its own interest. For example, it is clearly not in the students' interest, the demonstrators would claim, to maintain a Board of Trustees that supports the Institute for Defense Aanlysis, which aids...
...STORY of the Ed School's involvement with Roxbury turns on a central paradox. The School does more in Boston and the cities generally than all the rest of Harvard put together, but no branch of the University was less prepared to lead the way. "The simple fact," says George Thomas, the Ed School's liaison with the Boston School Department, "is that very few of our faculty have experience in the urban areas. The School is a suburban School of Education...
That the elements of a decent poem are so construed that they take meaning only in relation to the totality, indeed that the progressing of a poem can make unnecessary and even harmful the coagulation of inspiration, is proved, if it needed proving, by Rachel Hadas' exposition of a paradox in "Lucretius Widow Thinks Aloud." Miss Hadas adopts the epistemological methods of the rationalism she explodes and argues her case in spare language simply arranged...
...plot unfolds, Charlock marries Benedicta, the boss's daughter and the lady of the shotgun. Having become a key man in The Firm, with access to its inexhaustible assets, Charlock discovers the paradox of freedom: when all things are possible, nothing is possible. Denied the abrasive stimulation of uncertainty and risk, his creativity grows sluggish. A trip to the gambling tables owned by The Firm proves to be an exercise in boredom. Life for Charlock is reduced to a finite game that, like ticktacktoe, is impossible to lose once the rules have been learned...
Nothing Heroic. Where others have seen only romance, adventure and folksy humor, Fiedler's hawk eye spots paradox, irony and mordant wit. Hence Pocahontas is "our first celebrated traitor to her own race ... a model long in advance of Uncle Tom." Hannah Duston is not the heroic protector of white womanhood and the family but the great castrating mother of all men-a Mary Worth in linsey-woolsey. The tale of Rip Van Winkle is really about booze as a weapon against women. Only Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook make it through Fiedler's gauntlet without lumps. They constitute...