Word: paradoxe
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George Santayana, a wit once said, "believes that there is no God and that Mary is His mother." Last week the suavest living philosopher further compounded the paradox. At 82, he published The Idea of Christ in the Gospels (Scribner; $2.75), probably his most important book. It is also probably the most devout book ever written by an unbeliever: it suggests that' Santayana is a far better Christian, and scarcely less orthodox, than the vast majority of believers...
...takes place for the most part amid deep drifts of Hollywood snow (shaved ice and raw white corn flakes), as Hope and Crosby, assisted by a talking fish, a talking bear, a dynamite-carrying dog and Santa Claus and his reindeer, mush their Malemutes through a Klondike blizzard of paradox and punning...
Bevin is no Utopian internationalist. He is fighting for one world, but he is also fighting for king & country. With this sane and simple paradox-which is as sane and simple as Ernie Bevin-he had captured the imagination of millions who believe firmly in both nationalism and world government. Many saw him suddenly as the great defender of the West. To some extent he was-though capitalists who counted on Bevin to preserve the West of free enterprise were likely to find some day that they had bought a large and ferocious pig in a poke. Bevin believes with...
...present paradox in having social and clinical psychology and social anthropology grouped under the heading of natural sciences is solved by divorcing these subjects from their former departments and incorporating them with the entire Sociology Department under the new title...
...year which had begun in the certainty of war ended in the confusion of paradox...