Word: paradoxes
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...entity for systematic study: the personalities of men. He came relatively late in his career to the fearful realization that essentially decent men could put together a social system that ravishes their fellows. He saw in his lifetime and accumulated in his work more than enough evidence of the paradox. His legacy is not, as he was himself painfully aware, a solution. "Social science," he wrote, "lags far behind medical and physical science. It lags too behind the moral sense of mankind...
...paradox of the whole thing is that drugs to the hippies are simply a way of getting there, of arriving in a puff of euphoria. And hippies make it quite clear that drugs are just one way, right now really the only way, modern liberal America being such a horrible place to live...
...hill-country hamlet of Guildhall, Vt. (pop. 250), to eat strawberry shortcake on paper plates and set their sights for the coming year. Last week they were at it again, gathering in a 150-year-old barn for a round of seminars and lectures (sample topic: "The Government-Industry Paradox: Serenity, Seduction or Surrender") aimed at keeping their dynamic company on the move...
...Tandearil) and indomethacin (Indocin), when injected into animals, all cause the release of an enzyme which is itself inflammatory-though all are prescribed as anti-inflammatory medicines in arthritis. This, he declared, is puzzling to the point of being "intellectually unpleasant." Dr. Arthur Bogden of Worcester, Mass., made the paradox still sharper. If hydrocortisone and aspirin are given to laboratory rats under certain conditions before they have arthritis, both have anti-inflammatory action. But after the rats have their arthritis, the hydrocortisone raises a certain enzyme level used as a measure of drug activity, while aspirin pushes it down...
Roxbury today presents a sad paradox. Boston's Negro community, because of its active middle class, manageable size, community consciousness, and potential economic viabiilty, has long been recognized as having the almost unique prospect of seeing its problems resolved. Roxbury could become a model for the rest of the country in a relatively short period of time...