Word: paradoxes
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...Enigma of Felix Frankfurter attempts a full-scale analysis of this outsize paradox of a man. Author H.N. Hirsch, a Harvard government professor, is to be congratulated on his audacity as well as his scholarship. Psychobiography is a risky undertaking; putting a Supreme Court Justice on the couch is downright breathtaking...
...striking paradox about Giscard's slump is that under his leadership France in 1981 is one of the world's most prosperous nations. The French standard of living has risen more in the past seven years than that of any other country except Japan. Slums are rare. The world's most ambitious nuclear energy program is well under way, making France the only nation in Western Europe capable of reducing significantly its dependence on ever costlier oil. "The country looks good," says a Western diplomat in Paris. "The quality of life is marvelous...
Elsewhere a veteran brushes with paradox: "I was engaged in the one activity which is the ultimate macho experience. Within that I found myself and others capable of a tenderness which society only assumes of women." Military Nurse Gayle Smith found all such assumptions turned upside down. "I never knew what the word hate was until . . . I would have dreams about putting a .45 to someone's head and see it blow away-over and over again. I remember one of the nurses saying, 'Would you be interested in working on the Vietnamese ward?' And I said...
...displayed in that restaurant and even more to an analytic actor's intelligence that is restless and ruth less at once. "If I couldn't defend a performance intellectually, I'd be very un happy indeed," McKellen remarks, and his Salieri is a seamless reconciliation of paradox. It is a portrait in depth of a shallow man, a forgotten 18th century court composer so bedeviled by jealousy, the shock of his own mediocrity and the daunting genius of his principal rival that he encouraged Mozart's ruination and hastened his death. Full of wit and passion...
...evolution of galaxies through this type of neutrino clustering might explain one of cosmology's most perplexing paradoxes--the "missing mass" problem. This paradox arises because the amount of visible matter in the universe--both stars and luminous gas--is dwarfed by the total amount of matter estimated from studies of gravitational dynamics, velocity measurements and spectroscopic data...