Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evolution of Liberal Lippmann's political ideas is charted less clearly in his editorials than in his books (Drift and Mastery, The Political Scene, Public Opinion, The Phantom Public, Men of Destiny, American Inquisitors, A Preface to Morals). And it is a paradox that his exercise of the Liberal Spirit has brought him to a position which most Liberals would excoriate. He began with a stout faith in the workings of popular democracy and the benefits of collective action. But his newspaper experience gradually bred in him a distrust (again, like Hoover's) of so-called Public Opinion, the judgments...
Adhering to its invariable custom Hollywood proceeded to mould and stamp Miss Twelvetrees as a definite type. She was groomed and plumed, and came out a paradox. Her contact with the grim and the real was to be a result of her figure; just as her inherent fineness and final sublimation was to be foretold by the glow of spirituality that her slightly sloe-eyes could assume...
Today the Vagabond is planning to attend a lecture which at first thought would seem to be a scholastic paradox. He is going to hear one of the most eminent workers for world peace analyze one of the most important wars of modern history. The speaker is Professor Sidney B. Fay, and the war in question is the Franco-Prussian of 1870. The War of 1870 was the starting point of Professor Fay's researches when he began his long and arduous quest for the real origins of the World War. That he has succeeded in untangling many...
...marines to a quiet corner in Sever 11 and the drone of the immemorial past. It was, however, too late to break into print on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of Professor Whitehead last Saturday. To one to whom time conceptions are merely mental gymnastics, age a philosophical paradox, it is almost impertinent to offer congratulations. A certain kind of homage is perhaps more appropriate to one who undoubtedly is one of the greatest twentieth century thinkers and teachers. Yet, universities seem always to assume the right to boast of the men who make them great.... Lectures of interest...
...found in the limitations of the imagination of the audience. Of the writers he discusses, no one has the power to get beyond the restrictions of the theatre because they themselves are all too much a part of the period. In a specific discussion of the paradox of American, theatrical realism, he speaks of it as, "--a fable worthy of Grimm in a manner worthy of Sinclair Lewis." Even Philip Barry, whose comedy has the charm and authenticity of the Restoration, descends to preaching and farce, so characteristic of the drama of sensibility. His writing has the cold politeness...