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HOCKSHOP, by William R. Simpson and Florence K. Simpson with Charles Samuels (311 pp.; Random House; $3.75), is the entertaining tale of that commercial paradox, a respectable pawnshop. The original Simpson's of New York City's Park Row was established in 1822. For more than a century after that, five generations of Simpsons made good money by lending it against even better security. William, the fifth of the Simpsons, dealt with clients ranging from clever thieves to obsessive society belles, from broken-down prizefighters to muscular gigolos. Among their collateral were 18th century manuscripts, a Stradivarius...
While green sweaters and chinos seem to be the clothing standard at Hanover, there are places where students wear coats and ties. This is a paradox. While being Collegiate seems to be the intellectual standard at Dartmouth, there are places where students wear sober expressions. This is even more of a paradox...
...Paradox in Pricing...
...children or their montages from the class in social studies. Thus the competitive and contemporary problems of the children look down on them from walls that, like the teacher herself, are no longer impersonal. This looks progressive, looks like a salute to creativeness and individuality; but again we meet paradox. While the school de-emphasizes grades and report cards, the displays seem almost to ask the children: 'Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is fairest...
...President's hesitation at plunging promptly into drastic reform was rooted, at least partly, in a sense of unconsolidated power. Parts of the regular army, rankling at the defeat Castillo Armas dealt them with a handful of volunteers, subtly oppose him. The dangerous paradox is that he must show leadership within at most six months, or some other officer as anti-Red as he will try to fill his shoes...