Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burma, the paradox was accomplished by General Ne Win, 48, who resigned as Prime Minister and left the decision for the future up to the Assembly. He was quitting, Ne Win blandly explained, because the original six-month mandate given him by the Assembly last October was insufficient to restore law and order and prepare for national elections. After a decorous debate last week, all parties except the Red-lining National United Front agreed with Ne Win and amended the constitution to let the general resume power-and again prepare for elections. Target date: some time before...
...paradox of the draft as an incentive to enlistment is actually a fairly strong argument for draft extension, if one concurs in the belief that the armed forces must maintain their present size. Most Congressmen do concur and are naturally puzzled when the Army announces that "for economy reasons" it is weeding out 30,000 of its 900,000 men. Perhaps Congress could take the trouble to clear up some of the peculiarities of the deferment and exemption provisions, but these and the anxieties they may create among students are obviously not powerful enough reasons to scrap the draft...
Shock Effect. Partly, the paradox of fewer available goods despite increased production comes from outright figure faking. A full quarter of 1958's bumper "grain" crop was not grain at all but sweet potatoes, which Chinese dislike, and eat only when nothing else is available. But the fundamental trouble is that in their headlong rush to convert China into a modern industrial power, Peking's planners have tried to do too much too soon...
...fold: for the people and for action. Perhaps a diligent student could achieve what Schlesinger has achieved in compiling--in a topical organization--the wealth of material about the tangible activities of the New Deal. But the decision-taking process at the top would still remain a mystery, the paradox of a Groton-Harvard-Hyde Park aristocrat becoming a hero of the proletariat. The author does a masterful job of detective-work on that mystery and produces a convincing explanation: 'He always cast his vote for life, for action, for forward motion, for the future.... He responded to what...
...situation involves a paradox, for the radio business in general is booming. Today more than 49 million homes are equipped with more than 95 million radios; there are more car radios (38 million) in operation than there were home sets ten years ago. And radio advertising last year was up 3% over 1957. The trouble, from the networks' point of view, is that most of these gains benefit the independent stations, where advertisers can buy into shows that are both cheaper and more closely tailored to local markets than network programs. More and more affiliated stations hesitate...