Word: paradox
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...someone attending to an inner genius; you don't doubt that if she could only transfer what's inside her to her pupils, they would sing like angels. And when Callas' voice is piped in--a true angel, soaring out of the loudspeakers--Caldwell, her conduit, suddenly embodies the paradox at the heart of every magnificent diva: someone who might be thought triply vulnerable--high-pitched, solitary, female--emerges as an invincible spirit...
...SOLDIER LIVED TO BECOME A MAN OF PEACE, YET THE MAN of peace met the death of a soldier, his body torn by bullets. Perhaps there is no contradiction in the first part of the statement, only a paradox. We justify war by saying that it begets peace, that through death we bring life, and so on. By this logic, the Yitzhak Rabin who led Israel's army to triumph in the Six Day War shares everything but tactics with the Yitzhak Rabin who shook the hand of Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn. The warrior and the conciliator...
...there is a paradox of war, there should be no paradox of peace. Peace should beget peace; through life we should bring more life. Then how can we explain to ourselves the death of Rabin? How can we understand fate's logic, when an assassin slays a man who has abandoned the methods of war, precisely because he has abandoned those methods? Our realism only extends so far--we are willing to accept that good can come out of evil; how much more cruel and intolerable it is to acknowledge that evil comes out of good...
...problem was thought to be inefficiency: the slow growth and high inflation called stagflation. Reagan's prescription--cutting taxes and regulation--was a prescription for efficiency, for aggregate growth. Now growth is not the big problem. Yet the mainstream Republican prescription remains the same. Buchanan at least grasps this paradox. But, like other Republicans, he has trouble escaping it. Being a conservative, he is skeptical of both short-term equalizers like income redistribution and of pricey long-term schemes like federally funded schooling...
Chris Wink views fractals as the only suitable metaphor for life in the '90s, because "they're loaded with paradox, because everything's contradictory...the '60s thought the '50s were the one wrong way, and now we have the one counterway of the '60s. But, for the '90s, there...