Word: paradoxic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...displayed in that restaurant and even more to an analytic actor's intelligence that is restless and ruth less at once. "If I couldn't defend a performance intellectually, I'd be very un happy indeed," McKellen remarks, and his Salieri is a seamless reconciliation of paradox. It is a portrait in depth of a shallow man, a forgotten 18th century court composer so bedeviled by jealousy, the shock of his own mediocrity and the daunting genius of his principal rival that he encouraged Mozart's ruination and hastened his death. Full of wit and passion...
...evolution of galaxies through this type of neutrino clustering might explain one of cosmology's most perplexing paradoxes--the "missing mass" problem. This paradox arises because the amount of visible matter in the universe--both stars and luminous gas--is dwarfed by the total amount of matter estimated from studies of gravitational dynamics, velocity measurements and spectroscopic data...
...attic of their past, the 52 American hostages continue to provoke shrill quarrels among their Iranian tormentors. Last week the circumstances of their negotiated release grew into the focal issue of the country's internal political struggle. Each of the opposing positions was riddled with Persian irony and paradox...
...Michener, the central paradox of the Afrikaners remains their gift for overcoming adversity and their inability to deal with compromise. After the Boer fighting ends in 1902, South Africa moves backward onto narrower and narrower ground. The warring English and Afrikaners unite in a fear of darker races...
Your paean to the Agrarians is a reminder of just how willfully blind Southern intellectuals were and are. Of all the Southern writers, only the greatest of them, William Faulkner, had the courage to examine the true paradox of the South-the julep-sipping Southern gentleman who bought and sold human beings. The Agrarians ignored the dominant fact of their history: that their "New World Eden" fed upon an evil far greater than the industrialization they lament...