Word: paradox
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...statement of the U. S. view-an international broadcast delivered on the occasion of a meeting of foreign missions. But behind his statement lay a week of darkened counsel that began as over the U. S. swept a knowledge of what the Finnish peace meant, and pointed the paradox of U. S. desire for peace, U. S. determination to stay out of Europe...
...really good Wilde biography-i.e., candid, sensitive, objective-is Frances Winwar's Oscar Wilde and the Yellow 'Nineties. Readers may find something reminiscent of Wildean paradox in the fact that a woman wrote it. To readers of her previous biographies (Farewell the Banner: Coleridge and the Wordsworths; The Romantic Rebels: Byron, Shelley, Keats; Poor Splendid Wings: the Rossettis) it is also a reminder of Biographer Winwar's uncommon skill in portraying the pre-Wilde period. At its best, her book does for the decadent flowering of England's Nineties what Van Wyck Brooks...
...Harvard's new School of Public Administration which is housed there offers the strange paradox of being a graduate school which charges no tuition, gives no degrees, and has only 15 students...
...latest and biggest extra-curricular activity is worrying about how to run their extra-curricular activities. Tomorrow they'll be voting on this thorny problem: elected class officers, or appointments? Where there's smoke there's fire, and sure enough upon investigation this cockeyed situation reveals a basic paradox: only if and when the class votes thumbs down on elections, can they have any kind of elections they want. By all means, let the Yardlings have just what they want...
...knew only too well that examinations could be chucked just as easily as the Himalayas. He had to acknowledge that their uselessness was indispensable. The paradox was indigestible--but people swallowed it every day, and it seemed with ease...