Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regime had allowed many churches to reopen, visitors reported, but the press had launched many attacks on various religions. Last week Party Secretary Khrushchev brought order into this paradox by decreeing that "in the future, party organizations shall in no manner permit any insults to the feelings of believers and clergy or any official interference in the activity of the church." Khrushchev had his own Marxist reason. "Insulting attacks . . . can only lead to strengthening and even intensification of religious prejudices among the people . . . Patient, well-organized, scientific atheistic propaganda among the believers will help them finally free themselves...
...Detective (Facet; Columbia). The priest as the detective-symbolizing consecrated good against dedicated evil-appealed to G. K. Chesterton's keen sense of antithesis, and in the Father Brown stories he rammed the paradox, like an intellectual skeleton, through some otherwise flabby fiction. In this movie based on the stories, the intellectual skeleton is removed, and the film falls all of a sentimental heap...
MUSEUM PIECES, by William Plomer (282 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is an expertly-fashioned literary paradox: a sad comedy that turns into an amusing tragedy. It is about a couple of leftovers from Edwardian England-Toby d'Arfey, a brilliant, sardonic dilettante who was born in 1900 and develops into a stepchild of the century, and his twice-widowed mother, Mrs. Mountfaucon, a sweet and summery ineffectual thing who is abused by her son and adores it. Toby's career is marked by his successive failures as a speculator, opera singer, painter, milliner and playwright. During World...
HOCKSHOP, by William R. Simpson and Florence K. Simpson with Charles Samuels (311 pp.; Random House; $3.75), is the entertaining tale of that commercial paradox, a respectable pawnshop. The original Simpson's of New York City's Park Row was established in 1822. For more than a century after that, five generations of Simpsons made good money by lending it against even better security. William, the fifth of the Simpsons, dealt with clients ranging from clever thieves to obsessive society belles, from broken-down prizefighters to muscular gigolos. Among their collateral were 18th century manuscripts, a Stradivarius...
While green sweaters and chinos seem to be the clothing standard at Hanover, there are places where students wear coats and ties. This is a paradox. While being Collegiate seems to be the intellectual standard at Dartmouth, there are places where students wear sober expressions. This is even more of a paradox...