Word: paradox
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...specimen to find-if he exists. A few, in the blues of Count Basie, do "wear Brooks clothes/ And white shoes all the time:/ Get three C's, a D,/ And think checks from home sublime." But of all U.S. campuses. Harvard is pre-eminently the land of paradox. It is the home of the Last Puritan and the first New Dealer. It has turned out Autocrats of the Breakfast Table (Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1829), the dinner table (Lucius Beebe, 1927), the atomic table (J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1926), and the timetable (President Walter Franklin of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...story mixes evaluations of the University ("Of all U.S. campuses, Harvard is pre-eminently the land of paradox") and its new president ("Wherever he went, he was a success. Though never a flashy lecturer, he had an enthusiasm for books and men, and his enthusiasm was contagious...
...Cocktail Party was an attempt to synthesize current mores and, more exactly, modern theories of psychology with the Medieval framework of faith, reason, and salvation, The Confidential Clerk tries to dramatize the paradox of free will with recent thinking on heredity and parental discipline. In the process of fitting together the old world, of philosophy with the age of data, Eliot usually manufactures his dramatic conflict largely in the mind of the spectator rather than in action of the characters. The Confidential Clerk in this respect, depends even more on the symbolic clash of ideas than did The Cocktail Party...
...fantastic paradox of farm prices, on a toboggan slide while living costs soared skyward, has ceased...
Last week Nguyen Van Tam resigned as Premier of Viet Nam, biggest and most important of the three Associated States of Indo-China. In the strange tangle of intrigue and paradox that is Vietnamese internal politics, Tam, once an ardently pro-French pet of the French, had lost out in a struggle for power with wily Chief of State...