Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great ecological paradox of Harvard music, however, is that in spite of this interdependency and what one would expect to be the common bond of mutual interest in music, many musical groups are guilty of exclusiveness, lack of cooperation, and even open animosity...
...blizzards, Eskimos crouched over a kodlik swapping wives, bluff Quebeckers doffing berets to passing priests. Expo 67 spectacularly dramatizes Canada's achievements. If there remains an undercurrent of self-doubt even amid the celebrations, the reason must be that these achievements are mixed with shortcomings and shadowed by paradox...
...fact, the University Police are a paradox. . . . They must serve in an environment where formal authority is consciously minimized and camouflaged...
...meeting dissolves with the offer of another beer, and the new arrival retreats to his room, wondering, among other things, precisely whose side the University Police are on. Future experience, in the Yard or beyond, rarely clears up the mystery; for, in fact, the University Police are a paradox in concept and in function. They serve as a uniformed police organization in an environment where formal authority is consciously minimized and camouflaged. And in the last five years, the "campus cops" have become more like a police force while remaining something very different...
...Messiaen's use of bird song in his work seems at once avant-garde and traditional, the paradox is typical. He is a fervent Roman Catholic who feels a primitive reverence for nature, a musical innovator who retains his childhood love for Mozart and Chopin. Although he stands aloof from the factions of the music scene, he is a teacher and champion of such different composers as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen...