Word: paradox
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...models and Utopias." Logician Aron should know that doubt in one thing issues from faith in another. In any case, his is an unpractical enterprise in the present state of the French mind-like sending Coke to Cognac. He leaves France with nothing more nourishing than a paradox: "Let us pray for the advent of the sceptics...
...Having performed a new work once." wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's able music critic, Alfred Frankenstein, "conductors disown it for good. Hence arises an infuriating paradox: the best way to kill a modern piece is to preside over its premiere...
Poland today finds itself in the midst of a strange, modern paradox, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, after a six week visit to the newly separate satellite...
...answer to the paradox of prosperity-plus-rebellion is that Batista and Castro supporters agree on many economic issues. Though the men who drop the bombs are often wild young radicals, the brains and money behind the movement come from a group of conservative business and professional men. They want free elections, but insist they intend no swing toward the left. Said one such Castro supporter: "This year I have earned more money than ever before in my life. This has left my mind at ease so I could concentrate on my revolutionary work...
...orthodoxy . . . But there is the danger of thinking that we can confront the world like that, and if we do we fall into the same confusion as there was in Jerusalem at Pentecost-we excite some to Godly praise but others to perplexity and contempt . . . And there is the paradox that because the great Church has not yet learned to agree sufficiently in the use of its corporate weapons of the Holy Spirit, the World Council of Churches offers to help the great Church to find itself and do its work of worship, witness and service, or indeed sets...