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...upshot of Christ's life and the 1,800 years (the consequences) they have become acquainted with the answer to the problem. By degrees, as this came to be accounted wisdom, all pith and vigor was distilled out of Christianity, the tension of the paradox was relaxed, one became a Christian without noticing it. ... What one especially praises in Christ is precisely what one would be most embittered by if one were contemporary with it. ... Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware...
...paradox of poverty in the midst of riches, not Soviet Imperialism, is the real enemy of American democracy. The coming depression and mass joblessness, not labor union activity, is the threat to our freedom...
...paradox of the admissions situation, at the crux of the housing problem, has been compared by one of the harassed University officials involved to a five o'clock bus: everyone crowds to get on and complains if he fails, but if he succeeds he screams that his toes are being stepped...
...advance on the wonderful future he had promised. Said one Berlin office worker: "If Molotov is really interested in Germany, I don't understand his refusal to drop zonal frontiers." But most of the press on the right (German) bank of the Rhine completely ignored this purposeful Molotov paradox and played up Russia as Germany's best friend. Typical sample: the Liberal Democratic Party's Der Morgen headlined: "What Molotov demands for Germany" as contrasted with what the Western powers "demand from Germany." Said a German official in the Russian zone: "It has never before been expressed...
...genuinely effective price control bill have faded once again in the face of amendments to the new bill to exempt oil, cotton, and pulp products from control, the Taft proposal for manufacturer's profits and the delaying tactics of Senators Wherry and O'Daniel. Thus the bitter paradox continues by which the majority of people, who ardently desire the retention of price controls are defied by their elected representatives...