Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This paradox, and the propaganda piffle which surrounded it, was bound to baffle almost anyone in or out of this world. Even such worldlings as the U.S. Embassy staff in Paris were confused-Ambassador Jefferson Caffery last week found it necessary to summon them all to a special briefing session. How could you explain the situation to a plain American, or a Frenchman-or to a man from Mars? The situation was really sublimely simple...
...wonderful, and the conducting of Isadore Godfrey was for the most part an improvement on the D'Oyly Carte recording. His original use of the accompanying bass and of the French horns was one of the many surprises of the evening. Among other pleasures were the singing of the "Paradox" ("ha-ha-ha-ha") trio and the presence of the pitiful little corps of policemen who wander on and off the stage in bewilderment during the second...
Profitable Paradox. In 1929, T.U.C.'s Ernie Bevin swung the deal that made the Herald the profitable paradox it is today. Bevin sold a 51% interest to Odhams' Press, run by a business wizard named Julius Salter Elias (later Lord Southwood). Elias was willing to let Labor tell him how to sell Socialism, as long as he could tell Labor how to sell papers...
Future historians of 20th Century totalitarianism will puzzle over this paradox: the most effective anti-Nazi novel (On the Marble Cliffs) published in Germany during Hitler's reign was written by a prominent Nazi writer...
...elaborator of somber paradoxes is something of a paradox himself. Hawk-nosed and saturnine, Reinhold Niebuhr is, nevertheless, a cheerful and gracious (though conversationally explosive) man. An intellectual's intellectual, he nevertheless lectures and preaches with the angular arm-swinging of a revivalist. An orthodox Protestant, he is one of the busiest of leftist working politicians-a member of the Liberal party. For his gloomy view of man and history does not inhibit hL belief that man should act for what he holds to be the highest good (always bearing in mind that sin will dog his action...