Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bitter Paradox. Gifted with near-total recall, Solzhenitsyn set out to develop his powers of observation while in captivity. In the monotonous daily routine of his first weeks in Lubyanka, he noted that "the events are tiny, but for the first time in your life you learn to examine them under a magnifying glass." For the first time, too, he encountered the victims of Soviet terror whom he would meticulously interview for the next 23 years. He was struck by a bitter paradox: prison offered the possibility of discussing freely what was unthinkable "outside." Meetings with prisoners...
...number of questions follow from this strategic paradox. Is mutual assured destruction the best strategy we can manage? If it isn't, what strategy should we adopt? And if it is, what strategic forces does the strategy require? We should address these questions in reverse order because illogical as it might seem, that is how they are considered within the government...
...should be happy with the paradox of mutual assured destruction. It is in effect a mutual suicide pact signed by the two nuclear superpowers...
...American aid will continue as long as there is war in Vietnam, it is no paradox to say that war will continue as long as aid is forthcoming. And if there is no peace in Vietnam, the great experiment of socialism with industrialism cannot really begin. The futures of hundreds of millions of people in the Third World may hinge on the success of that experiment. On this, the anniversary of the end of a war which has not ended, the American people must redouble their efforts to pressure their representatives to cut off all aid to Thieu so that...
...problem with staging Kafka is that Kafka's realism is a tactile, not a visual one. K. is a faceless man in a Janus-faced world where you stub your toe on invisible rocks and hang your head against undetectable walls. It is a universe of paradox, people by bureaucrats, Chinese emperors and courts of law: all of which may or may not be mythical depending on whether you subscribe to them or not. To translate this state of affairs into performable drama is a challenge that Sanders and in some spots the Ensemble have barely missed meeting...