Word: paradoxe
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...question immediately arises, how can we accomplish the sweeping changes that are necessary, when the very institutions which we aim to attack are incorporated in the Constitution. The immutability of the Constitution has become a paradox. Radical though the proposed changes may seem, we should not fear to accept a responsibility on which depends the accomplishment of good government in the future. The foundations of the Constitution are still sound, but a thorough reorganization of departments and legislative method should take place. The number of departments should be reduced to a minimum, each subdivided into a series of sections whose...
...CRIMSON holds in general the views expressed by its contributors in these communications. It believes that to enter the lists further against the Lampoon would simply tend to place both sides on a similar footing. to place both sides on a similar footing. The "Hydrostatic paradox of controversy" expounded by Oliver Wendell Holmes seems peculiarly applicable to the present controversy. If you had a sent tube one arm of which was the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy...
...vein of paradox is glimpsed beneath these suggestions, it should not blind us to their essential wisdom and justice. In one sense the cause of any individual college, or even of a group of colleges, is undoubtedly an individual or a group interest. But these are perilous days, in which little is apparent in the public prints beyond brute passions and rampant selfishness. The World may well linger over every manifestation of the more human forces in civilization. --New York Times...
...former modes of existence and devote ourselves entirely to preparation for conflict. Great nations cannot live by war alone. The European people have already discovered that truth, and as many as possible are striving to keep alive some shadow of their former gaiety. It is only an apparent paradox that the sight of a movie of Chaplin the night before going into battle may make brave soldiers fight yet more bravely...
...reconcile such a paradox? Here are hundreds of men willing to die in defence of their country. But these same men treat with supreme indifference a concrete, immediate opportunity to strengthen the nation's defensive power and to increase their own military efficiency. There is but one explanation to the puzzle--despite their 11th hour devotion they are not patriots. For a patriot is always ready to fulfill the needs of his country, and our country has as great a need now for volunteer officers, under training, as she will have for a million raw recruits when war is declared...