Word: paradoxe
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...paradox when the person who was head of the subdivision under me for counterintelligence is standing trial in Munich together with an agent who infiltrated the West German federal intelligence service. It is the job of an intelligence service to infiltrate the services of other countries. And if a person succeeds in this, he should not be condemned under laws in a new country for actions undertaken under laws that were valid in his country. I cannot accept the idea of good and bad, black and white, that East Germany was an illegal state and West Germany was a constitutional...
...conservative. It is harder still to match the image of Thomas offered by Anita Hill -- of a boss who pressured and humiliated her -- with the picture offered by friends and co-workers, who portray him as a model of courteous and respectful relations with women. The bedeviling paradox that emerged last week was this: How could Thomas have been one man to the world and another to Hill...
...Well, I think there is a curious paradox in South Africa. We've had television for only about 12 years now, which is really very short compared with the rest of the world. But, of course, it is the most powerful medium in the world, and you'll find in South Africa now television aerials sticking up from shacks in the poorest black townships. In that context, books would come low down on the list of priorities. On the other hand, because there are many people who really are not book literate, there is an immense hunger. There...
...what he calls his Social Studies series with Turkey's Kurds. He quickly developed a characteristic technique, which he has used with everyone from Native Americans to American Presidents: he takes subjects out of their surroundings and photographs them against a canvas backdrop. Hochstein thinks there is a happy paradox here: "The sameness of the background emphasizes the personalities of the people." That is clear in the pictures for this week's cover story; no one who sees them will easily forget Coupon's subjects, even if their cultures vanish forever...
...Fourth of July picnic in Des Moines. He mixes an earthy Midwest charm with a trace of Finnish ancestry ("yahs" sprinkle his speech), which makes it difficult to fathom his lingering bad-guy notoriety. But behind the affable grin lie eyes cold and calculating. Perhaps it is this paradox -- the genial great-grandfather and steely communist chieftain rolled into one -- that has made him one of the longest-sitting leaders of a national Communist Party...