Word: paradoxes
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...perennially urged to break out, to write something more "serious" than a mere detective novel. He always refused. This was Chandler's final paradox, his simultaneous tragedy and guarantee of stature. Despite McShane's claims for his subject as "one of the most important writers of his time," the author saw himself with less extravagance and literary pomp. "The best mystery-story writers," he once wrote, "are those whose perceptiveness does not outrange their material." As always, Raymond Chandler was master of the exit line...
...European dissension. More important, such a move would anger Germany's trading partners. Anyway, it might not succeed: in these days of free exchange markets, whenever a currency weakens, speculators sell it and buy Swiss francs or deutsche marks. So Germany will probably keep on struggling with the paradox of a money so strong that it threatens to weaken the economy...
...realize how few have done it well. Hers is an intelligent, devastating performance. Ullmann's little smile of unsettled wellbeing, the desperation and desolation of her hysteria, are achieved by applying the most basic and most difficult concept in acting: abandonment and restraint. She reconciles the paradox flawlessly, as only great actors and actresses...
Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born author (The Painted Bird, Steps, Cockpit) and a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show, detects a basic paradox for the novelist and television. "Bear in mind," he says, "that in this country people watch the conversation." To David Halberstam (The Best and the Brightest), spreading the word is like being a political candidate. Says he: "I call it the Nixonization of self. You turn yourself into a human cassette." There is also the nearly hopeless task of trying to explain an idea or complex subject without commercial interruption. South Viet...
...agricultural worker resists the sexual advances of the local squire, Marcus reads a significant change in social consciousness, the rise of the belief that class privileges should not afford sexual dominion over the persons of social inferiors. He connects this reading to a central theme of his book, the paradox that Victorian morality had a humanizing as well as a repressive side...