Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken this kind of chopped and channeled mythology and turned it into an American pop epic called Two-Lane Blacktop. The film is immaculately crafted, funny and quite beautiful, resonant with a lingering mood of loss and loneliness. There are extended pauses and dialogue exchanges full of deliberate paradox. Few film makers have dealt so well or so subtly with the American landscape. Not a single frame in the film is wasted. Even the small touches-the languid tension while refueling at a back-country gas station or the piercing sound of an ignition buzzer-have their own intricate worth...
...only the latest paradox in the career of Robert McNamara that he turns out to be a chief victim of the Viet Nam study that he initiated. In the documents that have been revealed to date-a partial picture, to be sure -the judgment of the once infallible Defense Secretary seems badly flawed. In the early 1960s, few other Government officials had quite his sense of assurance that escalation would pay off, that a steady application of American pressure and resources would turn the tide...
...paradox and tragedy of Viet Nam, argues Gelb, was that "most of our leaders and their critics did see that Viet Nam was a quagmire, but did not see that the real stakes?who shall govern Viet Nam?were not negotiable. What were legitimate compromises from Washington's point of view were matters of life and death to the Vietnamese." How can this kind of thinking be changed? Gelb contends that a President must demand much more of his security advisers; they must probe more deeply into what really is in the national interest. The President must also take...
Kathy's victory, her third in a row and the 59th of her career, suggests a paradox: the more she dominates her sport, the more difficulty she may have in promoting it. At 31 she has already won more money-$326,035 in 13 seasons-than any player in the history of the L.P.G.A. That sounds impressive only until her winnings are compared with what the men make. Last season, when Kathy led the L.P.G.A. money winners for the fifth time, no fewer than 75 men pros earned more than her $30,235 total. And while no proette...
...nurse is trained to do all in her power to save a premature infant, no matter how defective or fragile it may be. When a fetus is aborted, however, a nurse is required to discard it-no matter how well-formed and active it appears. This paradox has already caused acute emotional problems-anxiety, insomnia and depression-among nurses in Hawaii, which a year ago became the first state to legalize abortion on request. At a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatrists Walter Char and John McDermott of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine reported that nurses...