Word: paradox
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...them is a masterpiece, but the best of them (Diary of a Country Priest, A Man Escaped) are luminous meditations on the life of man in the sight of God. In Pickpocket, a picture so original in style that it sometimes seems downright peculiar, Bresson propounds a harrowing paradox: that man must sin in order to be saved, that the road to heaven is paved with bad intentions...
...Relations came into existence. Boring suggested that the Psychological Laboratory leave Emerson Hall for the Social Relations people and move into the laboratory S. S. Stevens had created in the basement of Memorial Hall. There Boring began to revise his 1929 History of Experimental Psychology, to work in "the paradox of the Zeitgeist which controls the Great Men and yet is controlled by them...
...brethren, ye have done it unto me." And St. Paul added the equally radical injunction: "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." The central paradox of Christian free will is that the individual must surrender wholly, yet forever remain free...
This pacifist paradox is illustrated in an incident of the Korean war. Three U.S. soldiers, a sergeant and two privates, rescue a North Korean airman (Enrique Magalona) downed in an inlet. When they radio headquarters, they receive a command worded with discretion but ice-clear in intention; shoot the prisoner. The sergeant (Kirk Douglas) brusquely orders the privates to do it. The first (Robert Walker) refuses. The second (Nick Adams) raises his pistol-but cannot pull the trigger. The sergeant explodes. A private replies: "Why not shoot him yourself, sir? And look him right in the eye." The sergeant...
...long ago erected by the slave owners: a man is either totally white, or he is black. There is no gray. Liberal friends of mine condemn a person because he, being 1/16 "colored," says he is white and "passes" for white; he is "rejecting his heritage." (It is no paradox that most of the leaders of the Black Muslims are light, although not light enough to "pass"; part of their attitude is a fanatical rejection of their gray heritage which has rejected them.) Ironically, if he tries to "pass," he is also condemned and rejected by Negroes. If only...