Word: paradox
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...economy, like any other mammoth organism, can continue to flourish only as long as its intelligence can direct its vast bulk and react to an ever-changing environment. The guidance system faltered in election year 1966, causing that rare paradox, inflation at a time of some business slow- down. Some of the problems have changed, but they remain serious enough in 1967 to pose the question: Can the nation sustain a seventh consecutive year of expanding prosperity? In his Economic Report and Budget Message to Congress last week, President Johnson answered with a qualified yes. He said the U.S. could...
...every kind of excess in the name of Christ. That the same body that could impose the Peace and Truce of God should be capable of rejoicing in a cargo of Saracen noses and thumbs or of filling the Temple of Solomon with blood has been the dark paradox of religious faith in every time and place. Just and holy wars are incompatible. The just war is predicated on awareness of human intemperateness, inadequacy and guilt; the holy war drowns all that in the joyous, irresponsible assumption of being an instrument of God's will. In this respect, Protestantism...
...more than 30 years, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who died in disgrace and obscurity in 1961, has been both a scandal and a paradox. This new translation of the second of his two black classics suggests that Death on the Installment Plan should be discovered by a new generation of readers-and reread by those still scandalized and baffled by Céline...
...Gallic Streicher or an urban Schweitzer? His books illustrate rather than resolve the paradox. When Journey to the End of the Night detonated on the French literary scene in 1932 (there were riots when it did not receive that year's Prix Goncourt), it was like an explosion of excrement. The doctor who had a profound vocation for healing wrote of his pitiable patients with derision and rage. If he was antiSemitic, he also detested Christians...
Wednesday, January 4 ABC STAGE 67 (ABC. 10-11 p.m.).* "The Trap of Solid Gold" explores the familiar paradox of the executive who can't live on his income. Starring those newlyweds, Cliff Robertson and Dina Merrill...