Word: paradoxes
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...signals the death of a way of life. In his elegiac novel, The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa chronicles this transformation. But The Leopard is more than a retelling of aristocratic decline. It is also a voyage through the consciousness of Don Fabrizio, who struggles to make sense of the paradox presented to him by his revolutionary nephew, Tancredi: "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." Partially tied to the old order, partially sympathetic with the new, and yet truly part of neither, Don Fabrizio's mind refracts the differences and similarities between...
Having spent more than an hour in a traffic jam with nothing else to do but ponder this puzzling paradox, I finally decided he must perforce be using the Smith and Wesson model 41 with the short barrel. This seems to me the only possible weapon consistent with his character...
...doubt the paradox is pressed too far. Godard does not seriously mean to say that every little phryne is a saint with eyeshadow. He simply means to say, and he says it eloquently, that the pursuit of pleasure may also be a search for the self. The theme is illustrated with utmost art in the portrait of the heroine. Not since Stiller's camera turned to stare at Garbo has a man made such searing love with a lens. Godard's camera never lets the girl out of its sight. It circles her endlessly, kisses her hands, caresses...
...leap out to envelop it, for Gottlieb means them to be so flat that they will not violate the surface of the canvas and so sim ple that they can be absorbed at a glance. To Friedman, they suggest "the resolution of serene and aggressive elements" and hence "the paradox of civilized man." To others they are simply there, in all their stubborn purity-statements without any definite meaning and with little magic, but with a painterly integrity that has a force...
...considerable," he noted; yet the Joint Chiefs of Staff hinged their O.K. of the test ban partly on improvement of detection devices. Russell argued that the treaty would handicap U.S. progress toward developing an effective anti-ballistic missile system, since warheads could only be tested underground. "What a paradox," he said. "We will not buy a simple rifle, or even the most primitive weapon in our arsenal, a bayonet, unless it has been subjected to exhaustive tests under every conceivable condition. Here we would accept, with childlike faith in mathematical formulas and extrapolation, the efficiency of the most intricate, complicated...