Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days before coeducational residency, women searching for a niche in the Harvard community had to shoulder extra burdens. One active female member of Students for a Democratic Society remembers the paradox of trying to participate in a group predicated on "participatory democracy" at a school where men and women lived apart...
...Paradox though it was, the Crimson became aplace to belong. An inexplicable addiction kept meat a place where people were cold, seriousnessstifling and hard work prevalent; Crimson editorsand executives were indeed a breed untothemselves, regenerated each year through compsand production of a daily newspaper. I began tofunction within an environment which forced me tointeract with people who were quite different frommy friends outside. Here I learned again that Iwas quiet, hardworking, and easily intimidated.For three and a half years, I worked at theCrimson. I had to look elsewhere for my identity...
Colwin's prevailing theory--that love is at best a paradox--leads her to a symmetry as incongruously formal as a minuet played backward. Frank and his wife are perfectly partnered in their taste for English cars, Early American sideboards, houses in the South of France and dressy parties. Billy and her husband are a matching pair in their indifference to all of the above. It is the adulterers who are incompatible, an irony at once deliciously comic and far too tidy. When the lovers finally sneak off to an idyllic week in a Vermont cottage, subsisting on passion...
Reading further I find that it is a "minority" faulting the report. What a paradox! Why would one "minority" fault another's claims? Is there dissension? Yes. I refer to one short passage to explain this, as it turns out, helpful paradox...
Much of the criticism leveled at SI's annual swimwear review focuses on the seemingly paradoxical juxtaposition the magazine's usual apple-pie and Chevrolet subject matter with a thinly disguised exhibition of T&A. Unfortunately, however, there is no paradox at all. Sports Illustrated is the propaganda organ of the permanent adolescence of American men: media heroes, big pictures and sports. The list wouldn't be complete without adolescent sexual fantasies...