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Thomas Merton's language is that of paradox; his readers are trusted to look beyond the symbols to that which has been symbolized. It would seem that Dom Aelred Graham fails to read more than the letter which represents the Word . . . Trappists separate themselves from the world, but their days are filled with fervent prayers for it. Graham seems to mistake this act of love for a sign of suicidal despair; he seems to understand only one side of the Trappist paradox of suffering and joy. If Graham interprets Merton's advice as Cistercian propaganda for a Marxist...
...STRANGER joining the Kinseys and staff on one of their picnics would never suspect that these nice, comfortable faculty folks were engaged in studies any more stimulating than the use of the comma in Chaucer. Visitors are exposed to the same paradox in Kinsey's plant, which is called the Institute of Sex Research, Inc. The atmosphere is one of surgical asepsis, and each room is as clean and functional as the inside of a clock. Doors are heavy, made of a three-ply, soundproof material, and they have substantial locks. Kinsey carries numerous keys, and his progress from...
Davidson College is an educational paradox. Trying to fan the flames of a 116-year-old liberal tradition, the college at the same time demands an almost rigid conformity from each of its 800 students...
...veteran Green team that enters the Stadium today is a paradox of fumbles, interceptions, sometimes powerful, often inept defense and somewhat impotent offense...
...jargon of philosophers, Phillip H. Rhinelander is a paradox of being and becoming. For forty-four years' change and diversity have been second nature to him. He is a philosopher turned lawyer turned administrator. He writes, sails a yawl, plays a piano, composes light operettas and teaches Humanities 4. Perhaps his breadth of interest is fitting, for as the new Chairman of the Committee on General Education, Rhinelander is at the helm of a diverse amalgam of courses that is the College's most important educational experiment of the generation...