Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who saw only the scores of the Arena Christmas hockey tournament it may have seemed a paradox that the varsity, in finishing first and winning the John Babine Trophy, found last-place West Point tougher to beat than runner-up Boston College...
...doubt is soon complicated by the fact that she is induced to impersonate herself by the wicked General Bounine, a White Russian adventurer who would like to lay hands on the "Czar's fortune" deposited in the Bank of England. The spectator is thus caught in a dramatic paradox (virtue can triumph only if vice does) that keeps his mind engaged long after his emotions have stopped caring what happens to all the impecunious nobility...
Heschel asserted that "man is less concerned with God than God is with man," and cited Adam, Cain and Abel, and Noah as Biblical examples. "God in search of man is the great paradox of Biblical literature," he said. "God seeks us out by asking the Ultimate Question of us. Faith in God is an answer to the question. Thus God is not passive to our search...
...Twentieth Century Fund President Adolf A. Berle Jr., FDR braintruster who was among the first to recognize the new nature of capitalism, the "humorous paradox" of the new conservatism is that "our ancestors feared that corporations had no conscience. We are treated to the colder, more modern fear that perhaps they do." The fear is that, without an adequate philosophy to shape its generosity, big business may erect a vast new paternalism as sterile as the welfare state. In education, some observers argue that corporate coddling may stifle the independent academic spirit...
...genius, as Mary McCarthy sees it. Not only does it glint from painting, palazzo and cathedral, but from the hard surfaces of the Venetian mind as well. It was typical of the Venetians to sit out the first three Crusades except as close-bargaining transport agents. How explain the paradox, asks Author McCarthy, of "a commercial people who lived solely for gain-how could they create a city of fantasy, lovely as a dream or a fairy tale?" Her answer is as tantalizing as her question: "There is no contradiction, once you stop to think what images of beauty arise...