Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every successful Senator and Representative faces the Potomac paradox: seniority breeds power and prestige, but its responsibilities can also alienate an incumbent from the voters back home...
...delegates are creatures of paradox. For months, the candidates have wooed them; for a glorious week, they will stand at the whirling hub of decision. Yet they are widely described as mere tools of the true decision makers. The great scholars of American politics have largely ignored them: neither Tocqueville nor Lord Bryce nor Sir Denis Brogan take them very seriously. Yet these seemingly faceless men and women are now at the focus of national attention...
...Force man's liver trouble persisted for five months, his wife's for six weeks. The children were not so severely ill, and the six younger got off lighter than the two elder-a paradox of hepatitis that doctors cannot explain...
There was, however, a disturbing paradox behind those rosy superlatives. If the nation's employment increased, its unemployment jumped even more dramatically. Though June school closings traditionally loose hordes of eager job-hunting students on the labor market, this June's joblessness rose a full 200,000 more than anyone had expected. It rose to 3.6 million as compared with 2.3 million in May. As a result, the nation's overall unemployment rate climbed from a 15-year...
...each of you, I would quietly and seriously suggest that Mayer has invested something of his heart and soul in the show. Also that the terror inherent in the confrontation of the fairies with the oncoming dawn goes beyond interpretive rightness and suggests a vision of dimension and paradox not easily dismissable; also that the emphasis on Helena's "And I have found Demetrius like a jewel/Mine own, and not mine own" and Paul Schmidt's delivery of Oberon's "Her dotage now I do begin to pity" speech suggest an individual and serious attitude about love and love-making...