Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Priest and Peasant. He is not indulgent. The book remorselessly records a people drowning in paradox and blarney. Smothering religious piety coexists with savage sectarian hatreds. The calamitous failure of subsistence farming in the 19th century has ensured the preservation of exactly the same kind of subsistence farming in the present. Blessed with a shore line that attracts international trawlers, Ireland has never launched a fishing industry. "Socialism," O'Hanlon writes, "is a nasty word in Ireland, yet it is difficult to think of a non-socialist economic structure where the government's presence is so pervasive...
Truth and Beauty. A glum view of life at The New Yorker! Gill does not dwell on this paradox, but it is not hard to explain. Ross, Shawn and the rest have successfully set up as taste makers over a 50-year period when cultural presumptions have changed horrendously. The New Yorker remains a throwback to Matthew Arnold's Victorian faith in a secular religion of truth and beauty. Eustace Tilley, the magazine's monocled symbol, is clearly an Arnold disciple turned dandy. To be impeccable, graceful and hard-hitting all at the same time is demanding work...
Though the Hartford discussions brought out many theological differences, conservatives and liberals alike agreed on the necessity of Christian social involvement. However, a paradox was noted. The declaration insists that politically based theologies, which were created to foster social impact, have done just the opposite. Even Political Activist Coffin joined the group in condemning an idea on which he has often preached, that "the world must set the agenda for the Church." The view from Hartford is that Christianity will be too weak for sustained attack on social evils -or for anything else-unless it first seeks the transcendence, power...
...sounds like R.D. Laing's Knots, where after you've finished untieing them all, you're left with the same questions you started out with. There is no compassion, no attempt to understand, just glee in the recognition that the paradoxes of life can be stated in different ways, all very logical and all sharing one thing in common, paradox...
...PHANTOM OF LIBERTE. A Series of surreal blackout sketches by Luis Buñuel, loosely grouped around the theme of man's perverse pleasure in paradox. Buñuel creates in this film a paradox of his own: a work that is carbolic and tonic all at once...