Word: paradoxes
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...example, after being uprooted, people without an inborn immunity to malaria often prove more vulnerable to the disease. Meanwhile, international relief agencies charge that supplies are falling into the hands of government troops instead of beleaguered civilians. The rains that finally began last month are, in a cruel paradox, a mixed blessing. Weak and shelterless people in the cool Ethiopian highlands are now falling prey to pneumonia...
...outside observer, this seeming paradox becomes the key to understanding Penn. With 9000 students divided among four undergraduate schools, it is not surprising to find that the University of Pennsylvania is an institution of contradictions and contrasts. On one level, the students and the administration seem well satisfied with the university and the direction in which it is going. But underneath lies issues and problems that are only beginning to be addressed...
...recongeal into the recrimination and self doubt of the 20th. In contrast to the proud and noble self-image of the Victorian man, "our self-image looks more like Woody Allen or a character from Samuel Beckett," Tuchman declared in her 1980 Jefferson lecture. "It is a paradox of our time in the West that never have so many people been so relatively well off and never has society been more troubled...
Mailer is a member of the postwar generation of writers who still believed in the possibility of the Great American Novel. This notion always flirted with silliness, but its power to spur the ambition of young authors cannot be discounted. The paradox of Mailer's career is that his pursuit of this white whale proved the quest in his case unnecessary. He became a major writer without becoming a major novelist. His instinct to abandon fiction for long periods was, given his talents and temperament, entirely correct. His unique value among his contemporaries proved to be the witness...
...many experts, however, Reagan's dream of a "truly lasting stability" is a nightmare of a new, and highly destabilizing, arms race. It is part of the paradox and perversity of nuclear weapons-and practically an article of faith among those who must think about how to prevent their use-that defensive systems can be every bit as treacherous as the offensive ones they are meant to counter. The reason is that in theory, strategic defenses would tend to upset the balance of terror and increase the chance...