Word: paradoxes
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...great summing-up of Matisse's experience in North Africa occurred several years after he had returned to France, in The Moroccans, 1915-16. In that dense, grand and mysterious painting, the intensity of light is evoked, with all the courage of paradox, with a predominant velvety black. The ambiguous forms -- Are the green curved objects in the left foreground melons, as some think, or the backsides of Muslims praying to Mecca? -- combine in a pictorial structure of wonderful explicitness and rigor. One sees in the work painters who would not be born for another 20 or 30 years: Frank...
...comparisons end in paradox. The Burmese, the least sophisticated warriors, enmeshed in the longest, most brutal war, yearn for soothing discipline and community structure, while inner-city youth of Los Angeles, at the center of the most advanced society on earth, respond to adversity and deprivation by regressing to a primitive parody of tribes...
...paradox is that the 1990s pose a challenge our predecessors would have eagerly embraced. We graduate into a world that sees no war on the horizon, is buoyed by a long economic expansion and is equipped with the resources to bring about basic social and political change. We are the beneficiaries of a victory in an ideological war we did not have to physically fight, confronting a time of profound--but peaceful--competition internationally and in our own troubled society...
...current American attitude is a paradox. We don't consider our own country to be international, but we do, however, consider every other country to be international. We consider the ordinary person in China or Belgium to be international while an ice cream vendor in Kansas is not. In reality, the only difference is in the perception of Americans...
...modern paradox that children are far more likely to have living grandparents but much less likely to know them well," says Fran Pratt, who directs the Center for Understanding Aging at Framingham State College in Massachusetts. Psychologists point out that old people and youngsters, whether related or not, have much to offer each other. An older person can fill a void for a child who does not have a grandparent living nearby. And companionship with a young child bolsters an elder against the isolation and loneliness that often accompany...