Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, to some, was paradox--a paradox which still survives even in the physical presence of the superb theater Hugh Stubbins has designed had the gift of the Loebs has constructed. Indeed, the completion of the theater has, if anything, increased the doubts. To those who once asked new drama could be taught if there has to be no one to teach it, there are new added those who wish to be told new drama can be learned in anything as perfect as that! They can understand a man knocking sense into its own head by hammering a stage together...
Despite all the babies born during the 1950s, the U.S. is actually less densely populated today than it was a decade ago. The average population density is 50.4 people per sq. mi. as against 50.7 in 1950. Reason for this paradox, reported last week by the Census Bureau: when sparsely populated Alaska became a state, the U.S. added 2½ sq. mi. of territory for every Alaskan...
...gougings are carefully planned, with the artist, rather than the painting, at the controls. Yet the stern discipline deprives the paintings of warmth, and in the end, they seem little more than exercises repeated over and over again. For so sunny and passionate a land, Spain has produced a paradox: a comparatively youthful generation of artists whose experiments add up to monotony. The obsessive colors they all use-black and white, dull greys, somber browns, putty greens-are the colors of joylessness...
...door at the Paris Garden came the snarls of mastiffs as they leaped at the throat of Harry Hunks, a chained bear that snapped at them with his sawed-down teeth and clawed some into bloody silence. This was the competition for Romeo and Juliet. No one sensed the paradox of beauty and the bestial more keenly than Shakespeare...
...these, there has been and will be a spate of other Hamlets. For Hamlet and Shakespeare's other great characters are so rich in possible meanings because they are fashioned on the essentially human principle of both/and rather than either/or. Hamlet is more than the sum of his paradoxes; he is the paradox of man seen whole. All one knows for certain is that being Hamlet is Hamlet's tragedy-as being himself is everyman...