Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baffling circumstance in last week's bizarre comeback story of a baseball bat that hit the losing home run. Wood is not a casual concern to ballplayers. Why a .353 hitter like Brett would lumber along with a Marvelous Marv Throneberry model (lifetime .237) is the sort of paradox that, scientists say, has trees talking to themselves. With two men out and one runner on base in the top of the ninth inning, the New York Yankees leading the Royals, 4-3, Brett took up his gooey cudgel and went out to meet Gossage...
...example, after being uprooted, people without an inborn immunity to malaria often prove more vulnerable to the disease. Meanwhile, international relief agencies charge that supplies are falling into the hands of government troops instead of beleaguered civilians. The rains that finally began last month are, in a cruel paradox, a mixed blessing. Weak and shelterless people in the cool Ethiopian highlands are now falling prey to pneumonia...
...because a man dies for it"; "One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." George Bernard Shaw saw the aphorism as the new home for political slogans: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." His contemporary G.K. Chesterton was the last master of the paradox: "Silence is the unbearable repartee"; "A figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition"; "Tradition is the democracy of the dead...
...outside observer, this seeming paradox becomes the key to understanding Penn. With 9000 students divided among four undergraduate schools, it is not surprising to find that the University of Pennsylvania is an institution of contradictions and contrasts. On one level, the students and the administration seem well satisfied with the university and the direction in which it is going. But underneath lies issues and problems that are only beginning to be addressed...
...recongeal into the recrimination and self doubt of the 20th. In contrast to the proud and noble self-image of the Victorian man, "our self-image looks more like Woody Allen or a character from Samuel Beckett," Tuchman declared in her 1980 Jefferson lecture. "It is a paradox of our time in the West that never have so many people been so relatively well off and never has society been more troubled...