Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treatment. In recent weeks, research physicians have come closer to a complete turnabout in their thinking. They now believe that the commonest form of diabetes, far from representing a simple shortage of the hormone insulin, is a much more complex and still mystifying disorder. They have discovered a striking paradox: the great majority of adult patients have higher-than-average levels of insulin activity in their blood at the very time that they have excess blood sugar...
...given. You must have a flair for it, that's all." How, finally, does it happen that ordinary people are able to communicate at all, since each speaks his own language? "It's simply one of the inexplicable peculiarities of the coarse empiricism of the masses...a paradox, a nonsense, one of the aberrations of human nature, it's instinct...
Perhaps the biggest single obstacle to the spread of democracy is that at its core lies a paradox-the tension between freedom and order, between the individual and society. In many parts of the world, Voltaire's ringing "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is incomprehensible. The sense of individual responsibility that the Western ego has developed over the centuries is missing, and what seems in the West a rather commonplace step-voting and the individual decision that precedes it-can seem in Africa and Asia...
...deeply and rightly troubled by its own problems of racial discrimination. They are mild compared with Asia's endemic and murderous grudges, and America's problems are subject to a system of social and legal redress that, tragically, most of Asia lacks. The Asian paradox is haunting: on the one hand the brooding, jewel-eyed idols from which flows a spirit of contemplation and moral nobility, and on the other hand swirling violence and blind prejudice. These are some of the passions that years ago were described by André Malraux as "troubled shapes which in the evening...
Greene spoke before the show and admitted that "if the Time and Life boys went to China, they would not produce this kind of film." The HST audience chuckled knowingly. But this is exactly the paradox that the movie points out. The American public does not know. Thousands of Chinese are starving in the American papers, and peasant morale is ebbing, but Greene's presentation stresses the zeal and vitality of the Chinese people and their fat babies. He says that he was free to photograph what he wished and often traveled alone. He politely notes that the Chinese censored...