Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading your analogy between Nixon's plight and Zeno's paradox [Oct. 3], it occurred to me that Nixon has been like the kid walking up an escalator that's going down...
...paradox of the Fainsod report is that the balky legislative system it will try to fix has so far succeeded in submerging it. The report was supposed to come up yesterday, but it couldn't survive the parliamentary squeeze...
...want instant integration and those who want segregation forever. I believe we need to have a middle course. . . But what is the midpoint between Now and Forever? In mathematical terms, it is an absurd conception-dividing infinity in half yields infinity. Richard Nixon might consider Zeno's paradox: In perpetually moving half the distance between one's present position and an ultimate goal, one is condemned to never reach that goal...
...Grand Kabuki illuminates the paradox in the Japanese character, an outward decorum of almost inhuman restraint masking an inner fury of almost demonic feelings. Out of this tension the Japanese fashioned the peculiar beauty of their drama, rather like the Greeks, whose tragedies distilled the moral of "nothing in excess" from a people capable of nothing but excess...
...whose art is a twisted trail of surprises and double-entendres, the new piece is a triumphant denouement. It wraps all the themes of his previous works into one immensely charming paradox. The viewer enters a small white-walled room that is reminiscent of a grotto. On the far wall, a graceful brick archway frames a wooden door, silvery with age. Near the center of the door are two small peepholes that open onto a beguiling scene. There, lying on a bed of twigs and leaves is a delicate three-dimensional nude, her legs spread provocatively, her left hand holding...