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...addition to being one of the most important and cutting-edge examples of 1950s film noir, Pickup highlights the disparity and paradox between the two most prominent American values of the time: individual ambition and blindly patriotic anti-Communism. In one of the film’s most potent moments, the police threateningly ask the protagonist if he knows what treason is, to which he responds with “Who cares?” Released in the year of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executions, Pickup is rife with political daring, both endangering and enabling Fuller?...
...master teacher Etienne Decroux, Chaplin demonstrated the ability to show humor within tragedy. Marceau believes that this sense of “tragicomedy” truly reflects the essence of human life. In the first act of his show at the ART, Marceau proves the effectiveness of such a paradox when Marceau’s alter ego, Bip, laments his inability to adequately perform as a lion tamer...
It’s the paradox that has come to embody the Ivy League...
...Those who follow education debates know that most school-reform ideas--charter schools, phonics and high-stakes testing leap to mind--are promoted on the strength of highly contested evidence. By contrast, as far back as 1965, Milton Gold said in his book Education of the Intellectually Gifted, "No paradox is more striking than the inconsistency between research findings on acceleration and the failure of society to reduce the time spent by superior students in formal education." Forty years later, the authors of A Nation Deceived--Nicholas Colangelo and Susan Assouline, who teach at the University of Iowa, and Miraca...
...lack of youth involvement in politics has sometimes been described by the following paradox: Politicians don’t talk about issues that affect youth because youth don’t vote, and youth don’t vote because politicians don’t talk about issues that affect them. But by all indications, the youth turnout in the upcoming election will be one of the highest in recent memory, and in return we expect our next president to address the issues important to young Americans...