Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Details of this bleak time are hard to come by from Cheever. The reason for this lies in a paradox of the fabulist's imagination. Cheever's stories enrich his life; he possesses it in a way denied to people who merely live it. Memory is important, but only memory transformed by the imagination; and to Cheever, those who have not dealt with their past and the painful realities of their origins are only half...
...Winternitz, a man of astounding energy. In some curious way, immersion in the Winternitz family released Cheever from a kind of writer's block that he had had about his own strained childhood, and led him eventually back to the Wapshots of St. Botolphs. True to the paradox of his art, he found a hope in the past and a memory in the future...
Even lacking total credibility, The Servant shakes the senses by wallowing in the triumph of evil over evil. But if Losey intends an all-out attack on Britain's caste system, he may have blundered into a paradox. Many a viewer will come away feeling that a world of candlelight and polished silver might be perfectly satisfactory-if only the hired help knew its place...
This excellent new novel embodies Newby's view that most men create their own "heaven" or "hell" here on earth. It also toys with the Shavian paradox that a terrestrial hell can be far more habitable than a terrestrial heaven. Not least among the compensations, Owen reflects after telling all to Sybil, is that "they were talking about something real for once...
...Charlayne Hunters and Hamilton Holmes who by their physical presence on a Southern campus begin the erosion of southern white values and inspire their own people. Thus the ironic paradox of Education is that by embracing The Cause, by seeking to help the Negro people find self, the individual Negro's sense of self is threatened...