Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even readers who stick with Author Cahill to the end will never unravel the whole mystery of what happened to Professor Teigne, but they will get 200,000 words-now stimulating, now baffling-about Chinese art, philosophy, politics and paradox, mixed in with gang fights, raids, a U.S. hero and heroine and hissing Japanese spies. Novelist Cahill's polar north lies somewhere between André Malraux's Man's Fate and Cartoonist Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, but lacks the invigorating climate of either...
...Goat. The paradox of the year was the stock market. The big bull market, which had been rampaging upwards for four years, showed no signs of tiring as the year opened. Through the steel, auto, coal and thousands of little strikes, the market went serenely onward & upward, in a sort of economic Indian rope trick, as profits-and production-went from bad to worse in the first half of the year (see chart). So many little people rushed in to buy that the Stock Exchange spent $750,000 in newspaper and magazine ads to warn the lambs away from...
...This ... is a basic paradox: one moment money is the chief inducement to produce good programs; the next, it is the chief inducement to produce bad ones. In any case, money always has the last word...
...upshot of Christ's life and the 1,800 years (the consequences) they have become acquainted with the answer to the problem. By degrees, as this came to be accounted wisdom, all pith and vigor was distilled out of Christianity, the tension of the paradox was relaxed, one became a Christian without noticing it. ... What one especially praises in Christ is precisely what one would be most embittered by if one were contemporary with it. ... Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware...
...paradox of poverty in the midst of riches, not Soviet Imperialism, is the real enemy of American democracy. The coming depression and mass joblessness, not labor union activity, is the threat to our freedom...