Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyone who sets out to buy a house this fall will run into a bothersome paradox: while the demand for houses is declining the asking prices are rising. The number of housing starts in 1965 will dip 4% to 6% below last year's disappointing 1,591,000, and Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler calls housing one the U.S. economy's few "sputtering" segments. Yet the home buyer has to pay at least 3% more than a year ago. Throughout the U.S., reports the Census Bureau, the median price for new houses has jumped in the past year from...
...Puzzling Paradox. For the signing ceremonies, Lyndon corralled 100 Congressmen and 300 artists, scholars and entertainers-a gathering illustrious enough to please the pickiest patron...
Esthetic Antipathy. At any rate, the ruckus over Miller's boycott pointed up a paradox that endlessly puzzles the President. He has persuaded Congress to pass a mind-numbing total of bills promoting causes dear to intellectuals. He has assiduously courted the cerebral community and has shown almost childlike gratitude when it responds to his wooing-as when he gave Merrick a souvenir pen and thanked him for his rebuke to Miller. But for all that, much of the intellectual world still regards him with hostility and even scorn...
...Guild Paradox. "Then, the issues were automation and antiquated work practices," wrote Thayer. "These were the crucial issues, and they should have been dealt with decisively at that time. Some members of the association agreed with our position. Some did not. As a consequence, we reached a compromise settlement which gave the typographical union veto power over automation and also perpetuated the antiquated practices...
Thayer put his finger on the crucial point-and the paradox of the current Guild strike. A union that was originally founded by and for writers, the essential word men of journalism, was striking primarily over the problems of automation-something that is likely to affect remarkably few writers in the foreseeable future...