Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrator, a tormented young European intellectual, is obsessed by light. His hero, Prince de Bary (suggested by the late famed French physicist, the Due de Broglie), has resolved the paradox of light with a theory that allows it to be considered both as waves and as particles. But the prince is a scientific dreamer who can illuminate both matter-energy and the puzzle of creation in the same vision: "If we give free rein to our fantasy, we may suppose that at the first beginning of time, light alone existed in the world, and by its gradual thickening brought into...
...discussion of his earliest work, The Concord Song Book: "The place where lasting music will be built is where the two great roads of popularity and of lasting beauty intersect. In the pursuit of music, as in the acquirement of every form of artistic expression, we encounter the aesthetic paradox, that what we like first we seldom like best --that we prefer our second choice to our first.... The real way to grow the power of musical or any other sort of artistic appreciation is to live upon the edge of your taste...
Thus Author Sheed sums up the strange paradox that the Socialist welfare state, instead of liberating the mind from economic concerns, has actually committed its favorite sons to a slavish preoccupation with wealth and the good will of the master class. The special irony of that situation is expressed in the novel's epigraph from Hilaire Belloc...
...from an industrial to a service economy, where 55% of the working force is engaged in performing services instead of turning out products. The need for unskilled labor is disappearing so fast that chronic labor shortages actually exist in some areas where not enough trained men are available. The paradox...
Getting the Figure. Partly as a result of the paradox, questions were raised about the accuracy of the statistics. To get them, the Census Bureau makes a monthly sampling of 35,000 households in 330 areas specially selected to conform with national economic and population patterns. Interviewers check 75,000 to 80,000 people, about one-thousandth of the labor force. To everyone over 14 in each household they put several questions. The first: "What did you do most of the week?" If the answer is "worked," the interviewer goes no farther. If it is "nothing," the interviewer presses...