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...second problem is a paradox of having your cake and eating it too. How can we take seriously the revolutionary antics of a privileged group like a bunch of tenured law teachers? No matter how many protest marches and real world demonstrations they participate in, can CLS people live in their ivory towers and kick at the foundations at the same time? No one will argue that CLS has not turned Harvard Law School upside-down, but does it offer a viable program for social change...
Encumbered towards the end of his life by a tormented body, Barthes's fantasy of self-effacement represents the supreme death wish, the desire to become "the walking paradox who draws attention to his desire not to draw attention." In its headless, anonymous authority, On Signs is a body eclectic, composed of thin tissue samples of each author's textual corpus. The selling appeal of its entire package lies in its utility. Whether looking at the applications of semiotics in the bra-manufacturing industry or delivering newly-translated (and still largely incomprehensible) canonical texts and theories of reading, the collection...
...THIS PARADOX stems from a strong point of the production: the acting. In one case at least, it may be just too good. The farcical psychoanalyst--Mrs. Wallace and, to a point, Dr. Stuart Framingham--are played to the hilt by Ruth Bolotin and Adam Barr. Daniel Hurewitz is hilarious as Bob, who sulks, shuts his ears to reason and sings Frere Jacques. Caroline Bicks is a strong, though somewhat monotonous, Prudence, who does not know if she wants a husband, but certainly does not think she wants a crazy one. The candidate for both those spots is Bruce, played...
Biographer Michael Meyer, accustomed to tamer Scandinavians (as in his 1971 Ibsen: A Biography), fails to address the fearful Strindberg paradox as forthrightly as he might. He is long on description, short and cautious on analysis. But in the process of collecting data from Strindberg's life and from some 75 volumes' worth of plays, novels, stories, poems, essays, diaries and letters, Meyer scatters all the fascinating and self-contradictory clues a reader could ask for. Strindberg emerges as the most deceptive of fanatics. He was "slim and elegant," fastidious in his dress and aristocratic in his bearing, with...
Those who know Jernigan describe him as a kind of paradox: a shy, warm person off the court, but a demon of aggression when...