Word: paradox
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...which touch up her rather disfiguring freckles, played the leading role with all the tender delicacy it deserved; a man whose name I could not read played the part of a collossal boor with collossal boorishness; and there were many lovelies who displayed their carefully concealed charms (a seeming paradox) with the poise and savior seduire which can come only from several year's experience in French export films...
...easily forgotten. The comment is indicative despite its derogatory aspect. A painter can usually, or should ideally, be able to project his knowledge and instinct beyond his taste, the last mentioned being surface matter in the business of criticism. It was this gentleman's taste which created the paradox. What the incident evokes is the fact that Lyonel Feininger's work is that of a painter's painter. He always commanded the respect of his fellow artists. That is no easy thing to achieve and there are few accolades better worth having...
...that one of the Naba's ancestors was persuaded not to desert his people to pursue a favorite runaway wife-is unique to the Upper Volta in the eight territories of French West Africa, but is in a way symbolic of the whole region's inheritance of paradox and anachronism. Next month Premier de Gaulle's new constitution will go before the people, who by choosing white or green cards will decide whether or not to cast their lot permanently with the French. Whether this will prove a false departure, with the Africans refusing to go, depends...
...Russians practically smothered him with their kind of help-U.N. vetoes, hints of "volunteers," anti-Western Moscow demonstrations, threats of war-Nasser visibly fought shy of the Russian embrace. Here was a man who spread, and could continue to spread, lies and hatred of the West, but the paradox of an infinitely complicated situation was that the U.S., though resisting him, had in the last resort to stand ready to save Nasser from the consequences of his own adventurism-from Communism itself...
...paradox of public innocence and private guilt is strongly framed in the ending, and the point of the story...