Word: paradox
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...than a subject for speeches and learned essays. It is no longer a regional or even a national problem, but is rather international in its importance. The impact of the war, with its struggle between ideologies diametrically opposed with regard to race, makes racial discrimination in America a gross paradox. And more than this is the cold fact that we must make full use of our manpower if we are to meet fully the requirements...
...department is the dining hall short-age. This situation has become so acute that an appeal was made recently in Cambridge churches urging people to help; and appeals have also been made to the Navy men's wives in an effort to utilize all available labor in Cambridge. Strange paradox of the situation is that in some occupations the department still has a waiting list...
...looked like the worst kind of lame-duck appointment. Cried Wendell Willkie: "The appointment is ... revolting to all decent citizens. The difference between the high professions of President Roosevelt's and Vice President Wallace's speeches and the Administration's low political performance is a tragic paradox...
...paradox, if you will, that a free society must protect within these limits those who oppose the fundamental premise on which this society is founded. Yet, to my mind, this paradox is a necessity which springs from the choice between the two conceptions of human ethics as opposite as the poles. It is a consequence of a belief in the sacrosanct nature of the individual and a rejection of the view which glorifies the collective aim. To argue that the rights of the individual are a purely utilitarian invention is to deprive the underlying American ideal of its cutting edge...
...Catalina's changes, Maritime Service trainees lamented one great paradox: in the ballroom of the St. Catherine the hot band of Maritime Service Lieut. (j.g.) Phil Harris played music worthy of the island's hottest days, while in all of Avalon were only 14 single girls old enough for dates...