Word: paradox
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Roseanne. The Negro is one of the comic traditions of our native drama. Accordingly, the producers of this serious study of Southern life run the risk of casting a paradox in the public teeth. Visitors to whom Shuffle Along is the alpha and omega of Negro theatricals may be annoyed at the sturdy significance of Roseanne. For it seems to be one of the more important components of the current theatrical constituency. The story deals with the religious rascality of a Negro priest. In the midst of a howling revival meeting, word comes that he has seduced a girl. Promptly...
...action dribbles along without very much happening except Arlie's marriage to an ingenious paradox--a moving picture exhibitor who can't make money. Arlie, of course, becomes very wise to the ways of the world, and "developes" as fast as the most hopeful novelist could ask. She runs away form her second husband and, in a fit of abstraction, nearly settles down to a third Not from moral motives--that would be too Victorian--but merely for her own selfish happiness, she at length decides to return to home and her legal mate. Thus the book ends...
...perhaps the strangest paradox is the League of Nations. Accepted by almost all the nations of the world except the United States, it is probably revered more sincerely and praised more highly in the United States than anywhere else...
...American journalism is too timely." Mr. Frank means by this paradox that magazines publish articles too soon after the event, and before the people have become really interested...
...people read Moon Calf and Eric Dorn because they like to hear their own opinions What can one say of Waverly? What devastating paradox can one derive from Peregrine Pickle? But turn to Many Marriages and its kind and by comparison criticism flows as voluminously, noisily, instinctively as Niagara. When other vanities pass, there still remains one's own invincible opinion...