Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the mysteries that he plumbed, Barth himself was rich in paradox. He was a theologian who almost belligerently proposed the "wholly otherness" of God, yet he lived long enough to write a book mellowly asserting the "humanity" of a loving Creator. Though a critic of the Roman Catholic Church until Vatican II renewal, Barth had to concede that some of his most astute interpreters were Catholic theologians. He mixed profound spiritual insights with a wit that could be caustic or self-critical; a friend called him the only Swiss with a sense of humor. He was aggressively anti-Nazi...
...tragic that with an issue as important as this one, we as blacks find ourselves caught up in a familar historical paradox; simply, polemics are substituted for problem-solving and what starts out as an intellectual problem atrophies into so much stone-throwing and name-calling. Of course one must realize that by jumping in the middle of a stone fight one always runs the risk of being hit and mediation is invariably viewed by one side or the other as a sneaky attempt at a put down. But for either side to view this issue in terms of victory...
...Terrorism" is not the first word one would seize upon to describe Israel. Yet in a country most often characterized by a paradox and change, terrorism is one of the few constants. It is not particularly widespread, and one might think that Israelis would have little trouble going through a day without thinking about it. But they all do. Anything that happens to one Israeli because he is an Israeli affects the entire country...
Gleb Nerzhin, in many ways a stand-in for Solzhenitsyn himself, makes an opposite choice to Rubin's. By refusing to work on a new bugging device, he condemns himself to Siberia. He is the character most conscious of the paradox that pervades the novel: that in Stalin's Russia only those in prison are truly free to be honest with one another. "When you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power ?he's free again...
...PARADOX PLAYERS by Maureen Duffy. 221 pages. Simon & Schuster...