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Greene spoke before the show and admitted that "if the Time and Life boys went to China, they would not produce this kind of film." The HST audience chuckled knowingly. But this is exactly the paradox that the movie points out. The American public does not know. Thousands of Chinese are starving in the American papers, and peasant morale is ebbing, but Greene's presentation stresses the zeal and vitality of the Chinese people and their fat babies. He says that he was free to photograph what he wished and often traveled alone. He politely notes that the Chinese censored...
...electricity made human, and when he died last week of a heart attack at 82, it almost seemed that Washington's lights visibly dimmed. What remains is a paradox: the memory of a passionate man whose entire judicial career was aimed at controlling judicial passion...
...sequel to his History of the Cold War, Hungarian-born Historian John Lukacs, 41, poses a paradox worth pondering by the advocates of European unity. A good European, argues Lukacs, must first be a good nationalist; before he can become meaningfully committed to an integrated Europe, he must be emotionally committed to a single European nation. Lukacs shares De Gaulle's suspicion of a federated Europe, advocating instead the Gaullist vision of a loosely linked Europe des patries. Far from urging a return to truculent nationalisms, Lukacs hopefully champions the more temperate patriotism of the Briton, the slowly developed...
...Cult of Audacity. The stumbling block in any apologia for the French-or Russian-Revolution is simply that lofty idealism generated appallingly barbaric action. The paradox has been noted not only by class-conscious conservatives, as Palmer suggests, but also by such unimpeachable libertarians as Albert Camus and George Orwell. Palmer writes caustically of the British Establishment that scorned dem ocratic principles in the shrewd pursuit of its own self-interest. But when French arms were triumphant in 1794 and Britain's security endangered, the government in London indicted only a few persons for treason; and, though far more...
...Paradox...