Word: paradoxe
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...just the kind of political paradox for which the British have a peculiar fondness and talent. It satisfied everybody, including old Imperialist Winston Churchill, who ringingly spoke of "new harmonies." The only disappointed party was the Communists, who knew that an India out of the Commonwealth's charmed circle might fall to Asia's rising Red tide. Sputtered London's Daily Worker: "Unprincipled agreement . . . British imperialism has always proved adaptable in finding a formula which can suit its aims...
What can save a civilization from perishing? Does the Christian Gospel of Redemption apply to nations as well as individuals? Here Niebuhr wades into a cut & thrust theological controversy, armed with a two-edged blade of paradox. Human society, he concedes, is maintained by push-and-shove competition and balance of power; the very instruments of social justice tend automatically to become unjust. But, he says, such teachers as Martin Luther are in error, when they "exclude the possibility of redemption and a new life in man's social existence, and confine redemption to individual life." The structures...
Sartre's writing is occasionally much better than this pathological reverie, and in spots the book has an ingenuity and sharpness of detail worthy of first-rate talent. But the paradox of the central vision in Nausea is so forced and barefaced that most readers will not be able to accept it as anything but a perversion of the truth, a degenerated twisting of the classic experience of Western...
...boils down to a paradox. To have better Councils we must have better Councils. The only suspicion of a break in this vicious circle is the prospect of intelligent and widespread campaigning...
...Dismayed. Empson's paradox is that he preaches Oriental passivity in the most dynamic sort of Western verse. This is symbolic of Empson's life in China, where he shared the hardships of the Japanese war with his students, trekking overland from Peiping to distant, mountainous Yunnan province, a distance of some 1,800 miles. Books were lost in the flight, so Empson gave a whole course in the English metaphysical poets from memory, reconstructing John Donne's songs and sonnets by substituting lines of his own for lines he had forgotten...