Word: paradox
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...says graduating before his 21st birthday presents an amusing paradox...
...enough, the authors, who included Cynthia Ozick and screenwriter-director Robert Benton, proved fascinated by Genesis and fearlessly willing to connect it with their own life. Gradually they helped Visotzky develop his own satisfying, if unorthodox, understanding of the patriarchs. God intended them not as paragons but as a paradox: badly flawed yet nonetheless blessed. It was in the struggle to "mediate this dissonance," concluded Visotzky, that believers would achieve their own moral understanding. "It is not the narrative of Genesis that makes the work sacred," he later wrote. "Rather, it is in the process of studying Genesis that...
...this information explosion hides a paradox. At the same time that people are being inundated with news as never before, their interest in news seems to be shrinking. They are just too busy, or too involved in their own lives, or too bored by the Middle East situation, or maybe just too overwhelmed by all the choices available. Newspaper readership is in steady decline. That's partly because most people now get their news primarily from TV: 59% according to a TIME/CNN poll, vs. 23% from newspapers. But the audience for network news is also dropping. Fifteen years...
...paradox of the council is that you want the people who are very involved, but the people who are very involved are the ones who don't have the time to commit," said Philip R. Kaufman '98, a former council executive who is planning to run again...
...painted a very vivid picture of Chris' life today. As a journalist, I admired the scope and detail of the piece and the skillful way Chris' accident, therapy and campaign for spinal-cord research were interwoven with the personal aspects of his life and thoughts. You captured the paradox in his driving perfectionism and his unsure self-criticism. The opening paragraph was especially masterly in its description of Chris in his chair, inert and immobile but all forward motion in his eyes and his thinking. Similarly, the last image of him, on the tilt table, standing tall...