Word: paradoxical
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According to conventional economic theory, when unemployment is high and factories are running at less than full tilt, prices are not supposed to shoot upward. Increasingly, however, they have-as indeed they are doing now. That anomaly poses a formidable challenge to economists, and it is the paradox to which John Kenneth Galbraith addresses himself in his latest book: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (Houghton Mifflin, $10). His conclusion: "Corporate and union power" is the heavy; it "can defeat efforts to combine high employment with stable prices" regardless of the state of business, and can be curbed only...
Disturbing Paradox. Squeaky Fromme's mad act in a Sacramento park with a .45 in her small hand had an immediate, sobering effect on the 1976 presidential election campaign. All too clearly, every candidate could visualize a similar attack being a similar attack being launched against himself. The incident was also a vivid and sickening reminder of one of the most disturbing paradoxes of America: the fact that such a liberal and free society should somehow generate a sprinkling of warped souls who for dark reasons of their own seek to work out their frustrations by destroying political leaders...
...Russian discoveries reawakened interest in the subject. Geophysicist Christopher Scholz of Lamont-Doherty and Amos Nur at Stanford, both of whom had studied under Brace at M.I.T., independently published papers that used dilatancy to explain the Russian findings. Both reports pointed out an apparent paradox: when the cracks first open in the crustal rock, its strength increases. Temporarily, the rock resists fracturing and the quake is delayed. At the same time, seismic waves slow down because they do not travel as fast through the open spaces as they do through solid rock. Eventually ground water begins to seep into...
Thus Warren's central paradox: U.S. writers have been the bearers "of bad tidings of great joy." The joy comes from their very freedom to complain, and their message, no matter how resentful, is really "an adventure in the celebration of life." A work of art is more than just an independent image. It is an assertion of the artist's own liberation...
...Defense Secretary James Schlesinger bewails the loss of anti-Soviet intelligence bases in Turkey as "an American tragedy." Many sincere sympathizers with Israel also have taken a strong anti-Soviet stand because of Moscow's backing (in fact, relatively restrained lately) of the Arabs. Such observers see a paradox in the acceptance at Helsinki of Soviet territorial conquests in Eastern Europe while Israel is being pressured by many of the same world leaders, including Ford, to return lands it captured...