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Shotover's son-in-law Hector is another of Shaw's Chinese-puzzle characters, whose identity opens up like a box to reveal a new one underneath, leaving him a paradox that is never resolved. One of his personae is that of the romantic hero, with a moustache "like a bronze candlestick" and a general air of being a cross between the Prisoner of Zenda and Henry V. Hector is also a boaster and a liar and his wife's lapdog, but he is so totally footling and gormless in Dennis Price's portrayal that his cries of agony...
...paradox of belief in God at the University deepens when one examines the self-declared unbeliever. The most disturbing thing to be said about the Harvard atheist or agnostic is that he does not seem disturbed. He has rejected any positive belief in some of the cardinal propositions that have sustained and nourished his civilization for thousands of years, but on any issue, moral or political, other than the theistic one, he appears indistinguishable from his believing classmates...
...Headed City. No newsman has described the delicate and complex situation with more insight than Reporter Gibney, a LIFE staff writer. With authority, humor, and political sophistication, Gibney describes how paradox has become a law of life in a country where a dedicated Communist (Premier Gomulka) collaborates with a dedicated Catholic (Cardinal Wyszynski) to check both hothead Marxists and anti-Marxists. The result, reports Gibney, can sometimes be as bewildering as that wondrous two-headed animal of Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle stories, the "Push-me Pull...
Without a college degree, educated Indians face a life of unemployment or menial work. Even those who make it through college face a bleak and restricted future in the new India; the number of unemployed graduates tops half a million. This paradox of unprecedented numbers demanding university training, when the country's backward economy cannot even absorb all those now being graduated, has created what Indians call their crisis in higher education. It will be a top item for debate at this week's meeting of Indian state ministers of education in New Delhi...
...relationships are shot through with paradox. Members may declare a republic or elect a king of their own (as in Malaya). Ghana feels free to consider federating with Guinea, a former colony of France. Without consulting other members, Commonwealth nations may go to blows with outsiders (Britain v. Egypt) or with each other (India v. Pakistan over Kashmir). Britain welcomes almost any citizen of the Commonwealth to its shores. But Australia and Canada virtually exclude nonwhites, and Ghana and Nigeria forbid white men to own land...