Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others cannot. The underlying cause may be psychological (e.g., immaturity) or physiological (e.g., a constitutional weakness). Excessive drinking costs the U.S. $1 billion a year in lost wages, jails, relief, etc., but the total spent for research in alcoholism is less than $500,000. Says Hirsh: "This glaring paradox continues year in & year out despite the fact that excessive and problem drinking affects the lives of almost as many people as tuberculosis, cancer and infantile paralysis combined...
Virtually the only man who stood in a clear-cut position was blunt Bob Taft. The paradox of his position this week was that he was far more liberal than most of the right-wingers who supported him, and generally as liberal as some of the groping rebels who wanted to kick...
...clinical, repetitious elaboration of his grim teaching: wretched man comes into this rotten world through no fault of his own. The concept of God, argues Sartre, is an irrational delusion. To find happiness, each man must act to free himself from the brutalities of his environment; but, awful paradox, he cannot act until he is free...
...terrifying paradox of the whole thing is this: Harlem itself, and every individual Negro in it, is a living condemnation of our so-called 'culture.' Harlem is there by way of a divine indictment against New York City and the people who live downtown and make their money downtown. The brothels of Harlem, and all its prostitution, and its dope rings, and all the rest are the mirror of the polite divorces and the manifold cultured adulteries of Park Avenue: they are God's commentary on the whole of our society. "Harlem is, in a sense, what...
...Butch Jordan the Crimson has itself a paradox for a line coach. He is a paradox in personality, for it is not often that one finds a Big Nine heavyweight wrestling champion who doubles as a family man and a part-time camp councillor. He is a paradox as a coach, for he teaches the Michigan philosophy of speedy, quick line play, but himself is the epitome of the classic block-of-granite tackle...