Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, the force which in the final analysis guides every life at Putney is the pressure of the community. The major paradox which the school faces is that any encouragement to think and act as an individual is balanced and sometimes negated by the ever-present collective opinion, with its subtle demand to conform. Although the problem of conformity is probably far smaller at Putney than at most schools, it is still not eliminated...
Cartoons range from Disney's Donald Duck to Her block's political satires. Thurber's cartoons lie very close in essence to the "pure cartoon"--the self sufficient line drawing to which words are contingent accidents. These unadulterated pictures resemble poetry in use of paradox and irony, subtle imagery and wit. They live through a juxtaposition of incongruities, an analogous inversion of the natural order of the universe, and dexterous development of symbolism...
...show trends and changes in the U.S. labor force. Of the overall 2,316,000 jump in unemployment to 5,198,000 since March 1957, more than 1,000,000 came in such big durable-goods producers as autos, aircraft, heavy machinery and steel. The curious fact-and the paradox of the recession-is that other industries, such as wholesale and retail, banks, services (up more than 100,000), real estate and insurance firms, are still booming ahead. In March, employment rose by 323,000 over February, bringing total employment to 62.3 million, the third highest March in history...
...paradoxical recession, perhaps the biggest paradox of all is the leapfrogging race between prices and wages that has continued long after the general economy paused for a breath. Though price cuts are on the rise (see Metals), they have not been fast or sharp enough to hold down the steady rise in the cost-of-living index. Nor has labor trimmed its wage demands in the face of poor sales and lower profits (see Autos). Last week Chicago Federal Reserve President Carl E. Allen took both management and labor to task for what he called a "price and cost rigidity...
...cause of the paralyzing slowness of decisions is the fact that the agencies are two-headed, quasi-judicial bodies, thus are not only involved in fact-finding but must also judge the facts they find. The paradox was pointed up last month at congressional hearings by FCC Chairman John Doerfer, who remarked that as an administrator he should be out talking to people, but as a judge he should not. Under the fact-finding process, every citizen has the right to be heard before the agencies-and thousands use it. Lawyers have made an art of dragging out a case...