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...Guild Paradox. "Then, the issues were automation and antiquated work practices," wrote Thayer. "These were the crucial issues, and they should have been dealt with decisively at that time. Some members of the association agreed with our position. Some did not. As a consequence, we reached a compromise settlement which gave the typographical union veto power over automation and also perpetuated the antiquated practices...
Casual users of libraries are hardly aware of it, but library professionals and their more conscientious clients know about it all too well. They call it the "information explosion," and it has precipitated an odd paradox: most of the nation's public libraries have neither the money to buy nor the space to house the books and periodicals that a growing and insatiable public wants to read, while the technical disciplines-chiefly the sciences-have turned loose such a Niagara of information that even the wealthiest of corporate, collegiate or community libraries simply do not know what...
...Bassani's principal concern is with mood and meaning, and his leisurely, Proustian sentences brush and burnish a world of unexpected symbols. Although the novel is about Jews, it is only incidentally about Jewishness; the Finzi-Continis' confrontation with Fascism is employed to expose a painful paradox: life can be understood only in the past, but only in the present can it be lived. The problem is how to do both...
...most admired men of his time-and one of the most perplexing, a paradox within himself. Twice he sought his nation's highest office; yet he always thought of the presidency as a "dread responsibility." He was a politician without a politician's ways; instead of grinning gamely when, during one of his campaigns, a little girl handed him a stuffed baby alligator, Stevenson could only gape and exclaim, "For Christ's sake, what's this?" He was a man of rare humor, often expressed in self-deprecating terms. Responding to criticism that...
ESSAY probes a paradox of U.S. affluence-it seems almost necessary to be a millionaire to afford servants these days, but some people are trying todo something about it. See Help Wanted: Maybe Mary Poppins, Inc. Servants of the churches are not free of financial concerns either, and gone are the days of "the clergyman's rate." Men of the cloth now pay the full price. See RELIGION, The Disappearing Discount. And in the entertainment world, a blue-eyed crooner, son of a bartender, can make as much as $30,000 a week on the cabaret circuit. See SHOW...