Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canton, for over 1,000 years the great port of South China, lies on the delta of the Pearl River, in the centre of a broad rice-growing valley. A municipal paradox, the city's wide, clean boulevards lined with modern apartments and shops run parallel with filthy, unpaved alleys, so narrow that three people cannot walk abreast, lined with squalid one-story hovels. Fully one-third of the city's 1,000,000 Chinese live on dirty, water-logged sampans, jam-packed along the river fronts...
Einstein's Relativity was practically complete in 1915, and Quantum Mechanics had its fullest flowering in the 19205. Since then, theoretical physics has been bogged down in ever-deepening sinks of paradox and abstraction, while experimental physics has forged gaily ahead, with the discovery of the neutron and positron, of artificial radioactivity, of heavyweight hydrogen...
...businessmen who run the boards of education that run the schools. Yet today the U. S. has a decidedly liberal Government, voted in by the products of its conservative schools, and classroom and campus resound with students' criticisms of the social order. Flummoxed by this paradox, businessmen are getting increasingly hot under the collar about "visionary" professors. The institution they attack most often is the fountainhead of "progressive" education, Columbia University's Teachers College, which they call "The Big Red University...
With this shrewd focus, sharpened by careful writing, Author West sets out to bring Darwin into modern perspective, succeeds in making this newest biography of Darwin the freshest yet written. But with all his shrewdness Author West cannot quite clear up the great Darwin paradox: the contrast between his revolutionary work and the conventional Victorian who produced...
...paradox, however, that Duveneck's paintings seem more native to the "brown decades" in the U.S. than the paintings of some fo his stay-at-home contemporaries. he loved the brown pigment, bitumen, and it not only dulled his canvases but cracked extensively after a few years. His magnificently drawn and sometimes vivid portraits have the air of life in a darkened parlor, not the sunny tavern-and-haystack life which Duveneck and his pupils actually led. Artist Duveneck entered parlor society briefly in 1886 through his marriage to Elizabeth Boott, a refined Bostonian traveler straight out of Henry...