Word: paradoxes
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...door at the Paris Garden came the snarls of mastiffs as they leaped at the throat of Harry Hunks, a chained bear that snapped at them with his sawed-down teeth and clawed some into bloody silence. This was the competition for Romeo and Juliet. No one sensed the paradox of beauty and the bestial more keenly than Shakespeare...
...book is perceptively introduced and translated by Poet Kimon Friar, who captures the rainbow spray of Kazantzakis' thought, sparkling with paradox and poetry, anguish and joy. Sample reflections...
With this paradox, made startling by the context. Director Resnais introduces the theme of his film: Hiroshima, like God, is love. It is the Calvary of the Atomic Age. It died for man's sins. It descended into hell and rose again. "[On] the fifteenth day Hiroshima was covered with flowers . . . cornflowers and wild iris, bearbine and day lilies reborn from the ashes with a vigor never known before." And from the hell of Hiroshima, out of the death and transfiguration she finds there, the heroine also is reborn, revived by love...
...disease has shifted its aim: young children, especially under two years old, are now the principal victims. They are concentrated in urban and. rural slums, among Negroes and Puerto Ricans. This is partly explained by the fact that vaccination has been most neglected in these groups. But a major paradox is that, because of living conditions, these were formerly the groups in which harmless natural infection occurred most often, making paralytic disease rare. One suggestion: the wild viruses may be changing their way of life. The only thing certain is that polio is far from having been defeated...
...paradox is repeated in Candidates 1960 (Basic Books; $4.95), a spotty collection of sketches by Washington correspondents, edited by CBS News Analyst Eric Sevareid. The Dick Nixons portrayed by the Baltimore Sun's Philip Potter (anti) and the New York Daily News's Frank Holeman (pro) are different people. Potter's Nixon: "He has all the ambivalence of a college debater, who can make as forceful an argument on one side as on the other." Holeman: "He has the training, brains, and courage to be a good Republican President. He has the heart and faith...