Word: paradox
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...realm of science and the realm of art and religion; more recently between the secular and the spiritual." (Ironically, says Van Dusen, both Descartes and Kant had been illumined by a firm faith in God as the ultimate truth. "The history of human thought knows no more pathetic paradox than the contrast between the intended effect and the actual effect of the thought of these two great...
...madman of integrity like William Blake. Why, then-Western minds would like to know-doesn't Nehru the moralist make Nehru the leader hang his head in shame? Perhaps he does; but the practical West, which must deal with net results, is necessarily less concerned with Nehru the paradox than with Nehru the politico...
Like millions of Indians who follow in his train, Nehru is a paradox. He is not a typical Indian: he is a Westernized Oriental. Beatrice and Sidney Webb, the godparents of Fabian Socialism, are in a truer sense his creators than Vishnu and Siva...
...Rudi Bing, the paradox of the old Met is the fact that, despite the old sets and old costumes, standbys such as Traviata and Trovatore "still sell out the house." His task, he thinks, is "to get the public to demand new and better productions." He has to admit, from box-office records, that so far "the public just does not care." But, says Rudi Bing, with the look of a man setting out to do something about it: "I do care...
...very encouraging study. U.S. troops, defeated in a great battle, had established a new line in the lower part of an Asiatic appendix. China was under complete Communist control. In the two years since he became Secretary, the U.S. had become entangled in a paradox: insisting that its real concern was Europe, it nevertheless now had virtually all its effective soldiers in Asia. Europe, instead of being reassured by all the earnests of U.S. help, was filled with doubts and suspicions...