Word: paradoxes
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...degenerate artists" such as himself became inescapably plain. The mere arrival of this diffident and somewhat reclusive man symbolized the passing of modernist leadership from Paris to Manhattan. Yet unlike the Surrealists, he had few American followers, and none who became painters of the first rank. Part of the paradox of Mondrian was that although he believed passionately in the "universal" character of his art, it could not be successfully imitated. But it was vulgarized on a million grid-design dresses, bedspreads and rolls of linoleum, and parodied in a thousand cartoons. This image of Mondrian as a high-level...
...Jersey, New York and Maryland and brought to the United Nations an appeal for cultural diversity. He told his American audiences not to ignore the poor and the vulnerable, and he reiterated many of the themes--including his steadfast opposition to abortion--that have led to the greatest paradox of his papacy in the U.S.: widespread dissent from many of his teachings on morality but immense affection for him personally...
They also like, according to the TIME/CNN poll, to put the dictates of conscience ahead of Vatican doctrines, particularly in matters of sexual behavior. The paradox of U.S. Catholicism today rests precisely in this freethinking fractiousness among believers, who nonetheless continue to find common ground and fulfillment in the practice of their faith. Some of them advocate change; others resist it. But most have by now realized that change is inevitable in the U.S. church despite the best efforts of John Paul to hold it in check. Demographics, immigration, the allure of secular U.S. culture--all these forces and more...
...certain elementary moral metaphysics. Teach this: the more you indulge in anything, good or bad, but especially bad--in drugs, casual sex, violence, idiot music, stupidity, driving 90 m.p.h., bad manners, rage--the more you lose. The more you abstain, the more you gain. This is not cheap rhyming paradox but a good truth that in the past generation or two has been swept away by raw sewage. For an adolescent, abstinence means security and, therefore, the freedom that comes with self-possession. Abstinence becomes a medium of clarity, the window through which it is easier to recognize, among many...
...thus upon our lunchtime dialogue at Washington's Jefferson Hotel (named for that numinous slave-owning paradox) there descends the ancestral "twoness," something of the familiar racial veil W.E.B. DuBois wrote about...