Word: paradoxes
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...PARADOX: At a lecture last week billed as the "Evolution of Human Behavior," Irven Devore said little about homo sapiens until the last minutes of his talk. A newcomer to "sociobiology" would have been befuddled by pictures of elephants, apes and impalas appearing on the screen above Devore's head, an advertised lecture on human behavior sounded more like an interesting but insignificant discourse on zoology...
...anachronisms as God, the Covenant. Divine Revelation, the Chosen People, the Messiah (what a mischievous and tragic notion!), etc.-although I know and respect the ethical content of the Jewish view of these ideas. It is enough that I am and my people are. To the orthodox, metadox and paradox Jews, the polydox are a welcome new strain...
Some of the best poetry appears in the middle section of the book, "Desert." It is here that Tamsen's willingness begins to bitter. The impossibility of the odds finds expression in paradox: "we age in the youngest canyon; we fumble through/the same impassable passage." Hope finds outlet in dreams, signs and visions: a rainstorm on the ocean; a mirage of fellow travelers. Rock formations and vegetation come to stand for futility: "the children chase [Tumbleweed]/as though they were chasing/hoops or balls/the rootless chasing the rootless...
...paradox of dance choreography is that the audience is often unlikely to grasp the subject of the dance; but without a strong central theme, even if it is unperceived, the audience is likely to be bored. The pleasure one feels at a dance performance comes when he or she is immersed in the movement of the dancers. To a large extent, the success of a dance hinges on the interaction of thematic content with movement...
...labor) can claim that Carter could not have won "without us," only white Southerners can say that he succeeded "because of us." Indeed, the "Scammenberg" thesis is that Southern whites, in giving Carter "the margin of difference," abandoned their natural conservatism to such a degree that "the great paradox" of 1976 was that Carter ran strongest in the region where recent Democratic presidential candidates had been weakest. Because of white disaffection with liberal national candidates, the percentage of the vote won by Democrats in the eleven Southern states slipped from 50.5% in 1960 to less than 30% in 1972, while...