Word: paradoxes
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...paradox of the man turns out to be as fascinating to dance fans as the miracle of the artist in flight. Offstage he broods aloud about the "moral preparation" and asceticism that he insists are as important to the dancer as physical training -while avidly sipping a Scotch and soda and smoking cigarettes. He thinks of himself as a loner, "a wolf lost from the pack," but he is perhaps another kind of wolf as well. He has conducted affairs with several women-among them, dancers he has worked with-since arriving in the West last summer. He ended...
...second time. To preserve his sense of wonder, he regarded the world with the eyes of Adam. Like those other English riddlers, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear and W.S. Gilbert, Chesterton was childless. Like them, he became his own child, a 300-lb. choirboy reveling in puns and paradox. But between Chesterton and the Victorians there was a profound difference. Traditionally, English eccentrics sought refuge hi nonsense. Chesterton found shelter in sense. His immense output (some 150 books and innumerable articles and poems) evidences a long wrangle with madness -the lunacy of the new century and the wildness of the mind...
...Love. Enderby's position is too cleverly undermined by irony, too mined with paradox, to prevail. In The Wreck of the Deutschland (the poem, not the flick), one of the nuns at the moment of her death "christens her wild worst Best," just as Hopkins himself struggled a lifetime to confirm precisely in private pain and worldy rebuff some clear sign of God's forgiving love. Enderby attempts to perform the same sort of personal miracle. Desperately he tries to see the cruelty, vulgarity and violence not as correctable aberrations but as signs that man is still free...
Burns argues that individuals and businesses are not borrowing because they do not want to spend, and not because money is too tight. This, he says, is the explanation for the paradox in the present monetary situation: interest rates are falling even though the money supply is barely increasing. Burns' critics agree-but only partially. Says Arthur Okun of the Brookings Institution, a member of TIME's Board of Economists: "To argue that Fed policy did everything it could is untenable." The critics say that if the Federal Reserve had been more alert to the danger of severe...
Priest and Peasant. He is not indulgent. The book remorselessly records a people drowning in paradox and blarney. Smothering religious piety coexists with savage sectarian hatreds. The calamitous failure of subsistence farming in the 19th century has ensured the preservation of exactly the same kind of subsistence farming in the present. Blessed with a shore line that attracts international trawlers, Ireland has never launched a fishing industry. "Socialism," O'Hanlon writes, "is a nasty word in Ireland, yet it is difficult to think of a non-socialist economic structure where the government's presence is so pervasive...