Word: paradoxes
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This is a paradox. Once, shortly after the fall from the bridge, most Americans said Kennedy should never run for President. Now they urge him to go after Carter, promising their votes...
...confront each other, both worry about what Poles refer to as "the Soviet tank factor," the fear that liberalization may go too far, as in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and activate those slumbering Russian divisions. That fear has loaded the plans for the Pope's tour with much heat, paradox and political potential...
...noted "the difficulties of making national citizens out of family men" because their loyalties are so parochial. This somehow led to the aphorism that a sense of mission creates a nation rather than the other way around, and finally, after a few more turns around the table, to the paradox that in the Third World, the left is the staunchest defender of the sanctity of property...
Coffined under the white sheets of a hospital bed, Harrison is a lively tribute to the resilience of the human spirit under duress. A sculptor by craft, Harrison has a witty tongue, an agile intelligence and a wicked gift for logic and paradox; yet his plight makes his animated flow of mockingly funny words self-scalding. Conti makes the character an irresistible charmer whose naughty pillow talk seduces the nursing staff and even Dr. Scott (Jean Marsh of Upstairs, Downstairs renown), who loses her professional cool along with part of her heart...
...this quixotic journey, however, Ellison's unnamed protagonist had not yet resolved the paradox of his American identity. Even though he discovers the roots of his identity in Harlem ("I yam what I yam!" he says), at the end of his journey, he still has not yet discovered "the next phase," as he puts it, and so can only...