Word: paradoxes
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...spry, wry, spindly man who is at once gentle and unyielding, diffident and daring, Sheeler is a splendid paradox in American art. Neither realists nor abstractionists can claim him, for he merges their domains. More successfully, perhaps, than any other painter, he provides a steady look through highly polished spectacles at the works of modern...
...never been a Communist, he is not willing to swear so for the State Department. Reason: Kent claims that repetition of his earlier denial is "irrelevant" to getting a passport. Result: a passport has thrice been denied to Artist Kent since 1950. Last week, Kent admitted the paradox of his position: "I have spent so much money on lawyers in my fight to get a passport that when I eventually do receive it, I'll have to recover financially so I'll have money to travel...
This contrast, between impassioned declarations that Germany is indivisible and the day to day acknowledgment that it is already divided, is the most striking paradox in Germany today...
America is a spiritual paradox: it is, at the same time, the most religious and the most secular nation in the world. From 1949 to 1953, U.S. distribution of the Scriptures jumped 140%. In a recent survey of religious attitudes, more than four-fifths of U.S. citizens said they believed the Bible was the "revealed word...
Published this week is a sharp-minded investigation of the American religious paradox. In Protestant-Catholic-Jew (Doubleday; $4) Jewish Author-Scholar Will Herberg maintains that both the religiousness and the secularism of the American people derive from much the same sources, and have combined to give the U.S. a religion...