Word: paradoxes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Heavy on talk. Photo Finish needed to approximate the Shavian paradox or the Wildean epigram. But Ustinov's dialogue tends to be smart rather than sharp, cracks wise when it should be wise. Photo Finish is not about to take win or place in the dramatic sweepstakes, but it is a safe, friendly show...
...cultivate a democratic style of authority in French society. The crucial importance of France's political problems is emphasized through the various studies, especially those of Hoffmann and Goguel. Both men point out that France's political problems involve non-political elements as well. Hoffmann concludes that the final paradox of the French political system is just this, that "reforms in the political system alone will not be enough to bridge the gap" between the political system, and economic and social progress. "Reforms at all levels of the political community" need to be introduced, not just constitutional reform...
...cultivate a democratic style of authority in French society. The crucial importance of France's political problems is emphasized through the various studies, especially those of Hoffmann and Goguel. Both men point out that France's political problems involve non-political elements as well. Hoffmann concludes that the final paradox of the French political system is just this, that "reforms in the political system alone will not be enough to bridge the gap" between the political system, and economic and social progress. "Reforms at all levels of the political community" need to be introduced, not just constitutional reform...
Although the U.S. produces far more food than its people can possibly eat. the U.S. Government is footing the bill for $97,000 worth of research into the medical problems of starvation. The paradox makes its own kind of sense. U.S. doctors want to know the most efficient forms of certain food substances, especially proteins. And since starvation at home is too rare for large-scale study, the project has been set up in South Africa, where Cape Town provides an ideal laboratory. There, a modern medical school is located near a population with such abysmally low living standards that...
Poems by Lamplight. Frost was so completely a part of the present-day life of America that it was often hard to realize that he had been born during the Administration of Ulysses S. Grant. Another paradox: this professional Yankee was born in San Francisco, the son of a transplanted New England editor-politician. But his father died when Frost was eleven, and his mother took him back to what was to become his native soil. He tried two colleges (Dartmouth, Harvard), and quit both. In the years that followed, he scrabbled out an existence on a New Hampshire farm...