Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David S. Broder, chief political correspondent for the Washington Post, based his often prescient columns on a thorough grasp of Washington realities and extensive travels through the country. Broder pinpointed a paradox in the voters' mood: "We're not notably consistent in any respect. We want to keep the Russians and Chinese in their places, but we want to end the draft. We want the benefits of mass production techniques, but we want relief from the drudgery of assembly-line jobs...
...perception "stoned thinking," primarily because the words "stoned" and "straight" are common usage and easily grasped. Stoned thinking is characterized by reliance on intuition--deductive thinking based on direct experience--as well as intellection. As acceptance of intuitive perception encourages an understanding of "the ambivalent nature of things"--paradox, Yin-Yang--and a sense that infinite reality is not a threat but rather an invitation to explore. Stoned thinking in Weil's terms is conductive to that rare sense of being at home in the universe...
...real only on TV. When we see him on TV. We feel the Swiss who watch this man could believe him and be moved by the pathos of his "wasted" life. But he is real only as a TV personality--and if you come from anywhere but California, the paradox should be obvious...
...paradox is easily explained: in 1970 joblessness was rising sharply; many who were employed felt that they too would be thrown out of work. But now the rate has dipped from a peak of 6.2% in May of 1971, soothing the nerves of those still working-and they outnumber the jobless almost 17 to one. It may be that Americans are growing used to a jobless rate that they would have found intolerable only a few years ago. To Presidential Assistant John D. Ehrlichman, unemployment is really a training problem, because joblessness is "down to teen-age blacks, welfare mothers...
...good when he discusses the motivation behind Kissinger's policy directives. His knowledge of Vietnamese history helps him illuminate such ironies as a proposed American peace plan which reiterates the treacherous 1946 and 1954 agreements with the French that the Vietnamese accepted to their later regret. He appreciates the paradox of Kissinger's urge for personal, Congress of Vienna style, diplomacy that twentieth-century communications have made obsolete. Yet he fails to see the greater irony behind the historical comparison...