Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finnegans Wake naturalism and the artist himself all but disappear; the book is a shimmering death-dance of chameleon-like symbols; an attempt at nothing less than a complete serio-comic history of human consciousness-in Levin's neat phrase, a "doomsday book," culminating in a Phoenician paradox of dissolution and resurrection...
Mathematicians have long been haunted by a paradox: although most U.S. citizens profess to dread the study of mathematics, they are suckers for mathematical puzzles, made a best-seller of Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million. The mathematicians' conclusion: the trouble is not with mathematics but with the way it is taught. Most math teachers emphasize computation to the point of drudgery. A prime example (from an old U.S. arithmetic textbook - Greenleaf 's) : "Required the contents of the earth, supposing its circumference to be 25,000 miles. Ans. 263,858,149,120.06886875 cubic miles...
...Government last week was engaged in an undercover struggle with the British Empire to correct the wildest paradox of the war: gold, which nobody really needs, is still being mined at peak rates, while other crucially scarce metals are made even scarcer by the tightening pinch in mine labor, equipment, shipping space...
Schuman ascribes part of the present chaos to the paradox that the world is an economic unit but a political jigsaw puzzle. "Anarchy in world politics," he says, "is incompatible with unity and order in world business and world civilization. One or the other must go." He also sees an even more important fact-that "the central issue of World War II is not the issue of whether the world of the 20th Century shall achieve political unity. It is the issue of who will build that unity, on what foundations and for what purposes...
...down U.S. industry this week a new economic paradox was in the making. Government economists talked about the "priorities unemployment problem." But for a lot of people who would soon be out of jobs, out of victuals, out at the seat of the pants, it might just as well be called plain depression...