Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dangerous one. When a man chooses the ministry, he accepts even more stringent responsibilities than does a teacher. He is free to evaluate and propound ideas, but they must be concepts compatible with his calling. That a man of God should profess a Godless doctrine is an impossible paradox...
...just brought in such a sure-fire moneymaker as Shane (cost of the picture: $3,100,000), Stevens last week found himself, by a curious Hollywood paradox, without a job. Shane was his last picture for Paramount, which like most companies, likes to have more say in a project than Stevens is willing to permit. I don't think [big companies] see a motion picture for what it's worth. They see it only in terms of product . . . They don't consider what an attraction can be or should be [but] keep looking for assurances of having...
Shape of Things to Come. In explaining the Japanese character and the web society that helped form it, Author Gibney refuses to slip into dogmatism. Much of Five Gentlemen is a highly readable and informative historical narrative, showing events shaping national character and national character shaping later events. The paradox of Hirohito's vast national authority and surprising political meekness is seen as the end product of the careers of the 123 emperors who preceded him. Even a sign like the "Forgive and Forget Electrical Company" implies more than the simple opportunism that G.I.s laughed...
Thomas Merton's language is that of paradox; his readers are trusted to look beyond the symbols to that which has been symbolized. It would seem that Dom Aelred Graham fails to read more than the letter which represents the Word . . . Trappists separate themselves from the world, but their days are filled with fervent prayers for it. Graham seems to mistake this act of love for a sign of suicidal despair; he seems to understand only one side of the Trappist paradox of suffering and joy. If Graham interprets Merton's advice as Cistercian propaganda for a Marxist...
...STRANGER joining the Kinseys and staff on one of their picnics would never suspect that these nice, comfortable faculty folks were engaged in studies any more stimulating than the use of the comma in Chaucer. Visitors are exposed to the same paradox in Kinsey's plant, which is called the Institute of Sex Research, Inc. The atmosphere is one of surgical asepsis, and each room is as clean and functional as the inside of a clock. Doors are heavy, made of a three-ply, soundproof material, and they have substantial locks. Kinsey carries numerous keys, and his progress from...