Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looking right or left . . . as though through a mountain pass, where one can only look ahead." Torn with pity and terror for his father, the boy was also stirred by a sneaking admiration for the Cossack, with his instinctive animal grace and his life of action and violence. This paradox shaped Babel's life and writing. Before he was mysteriously imprisoned in the late 1930s, some say for making indiscreet remarks about the Stalinist regime. Babel had worked as a Bolshevik propagandist, been a member of the Cheka. and ridden with Budenny's Red Cossack cavalry...
...begun to move upward (from about 183) three weeks before the nation went to the polls. What surprised both Britons and Americans was that the market kept rising in the face of a paralyzing national railway strike (see FOREIGN NEWS). Most financial and political experts, trying to explain this paradox, calculated that one big factor was an end to Labor's threat to renationalize steel and long-distance trucking, nationalize chemicals and machine tools, etc., and the promise of widepread expansion of industry...
Love Me or Leave Me (MGM) is a Hollywood paradox: a CinemaScope musical that has the bite of authenticity. In telling the story of Ruth Etting, the famed torch singer of the '20s, the film rings true just by following the broad outline of her career as it was carried in the tabloid headlines...
...United States, as the leader of the Western coalition, the present Soviet policy offers an almost insoluble paradox. If we withdraw our present objections to trade between the two camps of Europe, we face the unpleasant prospect of seeing our potential enemies materially strengthened. On the other hand, if we object to East-West trade which would obviously be beneficial to our allies, we will see even a further increase in European charges that the United States is meddluing in domestic politics that do not concern it; ultimately we might awaken to find that a once-strong alliance had crumbled...
This eloquent book bears a Danish boy's precocious witness to the hard scriptural paradox that he who loses his life shall find it. Seventeen and in love, Kim knocks around the Baltic as an apprentice on a three-masted schooner, fighting for peace within, while World War II rages around him. Soon this unschooled lad, who can write so tenderly to his sweetheart ("May you sleep as sweetly as a water lily on a pond"), is looking into the hearts of others-the cough-racked Finnish soldier riding a blacked-out bus near the front, the old Danish...