Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for your thought-provoking article. The description of the paradox of a society at once sex-saturated and sex-starved (when it comes to understanding the real meaning and purpose of sex) is clearly delineated...
Mists of Morning. At a time when archaeology is so dependent on so many disciplines, Glueck's individual achievement seems almost paradoxical. But paradox is the measure of the man. He is a rabbi who has never served a congregation, but who, speaking partly in Hebrew, delivered the benediction-"May the Lord be gracious unto thee" -at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration. He is president of Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College, but as an educator he spends much of his time thousands of miles from his classrooms...
...American life. It is sheer delight for me to think of all those superpatriots in Texas and California, who would find Senator Javits anathema-andnot only because he is a liberal-whooping it up for dear old Barry. And it is a sheer delight to think of the paradox of Catholics deciding that Kennedy is too radical for them, and rooting for Goldwater, while Jews will be unmoved by Goldwater's Jewish ties and will plump for Kennedy...
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...signals the death of a way of life. In his elegiac novel, The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa chronicles this transformation. But The Leopard is more than a retelling of aristocratic decline. It is also a voyage through the consciousness of Don Fabrizio, who struggles to make sense of the paradox presented to him by his revolutionary nephew, Tancredi: "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." Partially tied to the old order, partially sympathetic with the new, and yet truly part of neither, Don Fabrizio's mind refracts the differences and similarities between...