Word: paradoxe
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...study which he dedicates "above all to John Livingston Lowes, master and friend," Mr. Calvert attempts an explanation of the "romantic paradox" of Byron through an analysis of his poems. Byron, Mr. Calvert holds, did not at one time depend upon the school of Pope and at another skip blithely to the romantic manner. The critic presents a consistent Byron, a man who contained in himself elements of both classicist and romanticist, at all times sincere; and not spasmodically, but progressively ridding himself of the superficial aspects of each until he reached his height in "Don Juan...
...himself. Doris Duke Cromwell & husband started for Bombay to resume their honeymoon. A United Pressman quoted her as saying: "I felt, in meeting this world-famous advocate of peace and nonviolence, that I had talked to a Messiah, comparable to Confucius, Buddha, Christ or Mohammed. There seemed an amazing paradox in this Hindu Messiah's opposition to what he felt to be the oppression of Great Britain, one of the most powerful of the nations which practice the precepts of Jesus Christ...
...Holmes over attaining the prestige that was his if he had continued being a soldier. It's hard to believe that the jurist who had the world at his feet a few short weeks before his death would like to be thought of as a man of blood. The paradox is not only ludicrous, but grim...
...Farmers Celebrate." To alert newsfolk the difference between what correspondents cable from Moscow and what they say off-the-record when out of Russia constitutes a piquant paradox. In the autumn of 1933 famed Walter Duranty, quizzed by his New York Times superiors in Manhattan, related grim facts. Previously, Mr. Duranty had cabled merely that he thought figures showing the death rate in the Ukraine to have tripled were "too low." Last week honest Walter Duranty got off this normal Moscow dispatch: "The definite and striking success of the collective farm movement has been demonstrated at the second congress...
...Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, as usual, some painfully normal English folk were thrust into an eccentric setting, this time among the godlike inhabitants of an island just arisen from the sea. Strutting his pretty taste in paradox, Playwright Shaw again discussed polygamy, Empire, the Church, vegetarianism, Fascism, Indian Independence, medicine...