Word: paradox
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...waterfront sector of St. Pauli, dozens of nightclubs stretch along a half-mile of neon lights on the Reeperbahn. Seamen of all nations dance with heavily rouged "animation ladies," and pay Stork Club prices for flaccid German champagne. The rule at the Bal Paradox is that the women ask the men to dance. In Hamburg's railroad station is the Treffpunkt agency: for 25 marks ($5.95) a man can leaf through a photo album, select a girl, arrange a date. Says proud Treffpunkt Manager Max Pollack: "All my girls are high-class, and you'd be surprised...
...surrealism, Leonid never paints outright fantasies, "but I like to discover the surreal things that exist in nature. I look for the paradox . . . like men reaping seaweed or growing mussels in regular vineyards under water...
...object of their individual amorous efforts. She spurns them all for her independence; the curtain falls and the audience is left to judge the elements of each philosophy for what it is worth. They are not all compatible, and the audience is left with the Shavian scurge, the unresolved paradox...
...over 250 gifts for immediate use flowed into the Medical School, and the 1949-1950 total received a big boost only two weeks ago when the American Cancer Society added $100,000 to previous grants. But it's all a paradox. In too many cases, a gift received actually sinks the Medical School further into debt...
...This paradox confronts the recent arrival, Dona Ana, who, as legend has it, retained her virtue at the expense of her father who was killed by Juan in a duel over the attempted seduction. Don Juan, a veteran in Hell, is seen to have profited by his earthly satiation with the life of the senses, and he is prepared to visit Heaven to achieve self-fulfilment. In analysis, it may be hard to see how this idea could ever be interesting in dramatic form. But the sparkling prose of the philosophic discussions is delightful for its wit, its audacity...