Word: paradoxes
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...never hung; the golden crowns gorged with diamonds-all these are works of art. Yet this is art not as communication but as excommunication, a barrier defining the unbridgeable distance between the rulers' unlimited power and the cowed abasement of the poor and weak. The seeming paradox that the Communists cherish this "imperialistic" treasure-trove is a tribute not to their good taste, but to their psychological astuteness. They recognized that the Kremlin housed in its bejeweled splendor a tactic of tyranny as useful to the commissars as to the czars...
...world's eyes, the U.S. seemed to be sitting atop a curious paradox. On the one hand, there was the image of President Eisenhower, returning from still another successful good-will trip abroad, where by force of personality and earnest pleadings, he characterized for millions of Latin Americans the U.S. principles of fair play, human dignity and equality (see The Presidency). Yet the President came home to Washington to see what the world also saw: the U.S. Senate ground to a halt by a Southern filibuster that, in broad perspective, seemed dedicated to denying the Southern Negro his constitutional...
...this land of paradox, Indian civil airline pilots fly more than 25 million domestic miles a year and jet fighters are being built in Indian factories by Indian workmen. Yet not long ago, when a plane landed for the first time in a district of northern India, peasants tried to feed it hay. The old ways die hard: recently a Westernized and highly educated dean of an Indian law school kept postponing his flight to the U.S. until an auspicious date was selected for him by his astrologer...
...Amherst men listed drawbacks aplenty, notably dullard school boards, low pay and low prestige. They emphasized a paradox created by crowded schools: U.S. teachers now look forward to school jobs that "will get them out of the classroom." Especially affected is the really good teacher-"a master, an expert, a torero"-who gets all the tough classes with no extra pay. Eventually, he grabs an administrative job to survive. "The whole question of improving U.S. education," said one teacher, "is tied up with this dichotomy...
Saints issue from the hand of God, but they are canonized on earth. In what seems a paradox to most non-Catholics, the Roman Catholic Church brings the full light of reason to play on a complex mystery of faith: whether a man or woman has displayed Christlike sanctity, including the performance of miracles. To this question, the church brings the meticulous accounting of a bank examiner, the ferreting instincts of a good detective, and the judicial lore of centuries of precedents. In practice, these are embodied in an initial diocesan investigation of claims to sainthood, followed by a formal...