Word: paradox
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...paradox of the waning 1950s is that prosperity has become the root of problems. From Buffalo to Bombay, prosperity-fueled inflation is gnawing at the consumer's pocketbook, and the high cost of money is crimping the expansion plans of business and industry. The problem (which the Finns call "a crisis of prosperity") is reported and analyzed in BUSINESS, World Capital Shortage, and FOREIGN NEWS, Life on the Escalator...
...Shaw will not let one off with a simple dichotomy; clearly there is a paradox and Hell is not all it's cracked up to be. Don Juan, the hero, chooses to escape to Heaven, while the stupid, if pitiable, Ramsden prefers to prolong his visit to the pleasure pots of Hell. No review can do justice to an interpretation of the play, but suffice to say that Man and Superman has paradoxes, ambivalences, and deeper meanings which the actors present clearly and without strain...
This week the placidly simple routine is being shattered by the invasion of interviewers, TV cameramen and technicians, all bent on helping the world celebrate the 75th birthday of the 20th century's most influential composer. What the world salutes in Stravinsky, among other things, is a paradox: in his 50 years as a composer, he has been both a popular success and a daring musical explorer, both a commercial artist unafraid of writing for money on assignment (e.g., his Tango for piano solo, his elephants' polka for the Ringling Brothers Circus) and yet an uncompromising individualist. Says...
...disease-ridden, edge-of-hunger poverty. Untrained for the fast changing white men's world, they seemed resigned to everlasting subsistence-living and stagnation. Then, a year ago, money began flowing in as U.S. oil companies scrambled for gas and oil leases in the Southwest's vast Paradox Basin, much of it lying in the Navajo and Ute reservations...
...physics of atomic mechanics, developed from a paradox in physics, is able to explain all the things known classically in a more general way, J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 told a Sanders Theatre audience yesterday...