Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Taylor Hackford need not have resolved the paradox of loyalty, honor and duty channelled into the overall profession of maiming and mangling, but in a movie with so much introspection afoot, it seems strange that not a single character broods about the fundamental premise of the military...
...fashion. Stephen Moore makes of Bertram's boon companion, Parolles, a pompous, endearing rogue and braggart, a mini-Falstaff. The countess's clown (Geoffrey Hutchings) is Lear's fool, in wit though not in pathos. And Robert Eddison, as adviser to the King, is an elegant paradox, a wise Polonius...
Donald Bell doesn't believe in the traditional American conception of manhood that colors virtually every aspect of our lives, from Cambridge classroom to Texas taproom. That's why he shared his feelings with his history class, and that's why he has written Being a Man: The Paradox of Masculinity. In today's changing world, Bell argues, the traditional image of the unemotional, super-competent male achiever is both outmoded and destructive...
...career goals to enable his second wife to realize hers. Here, above all, is a sensitive young man daring to be honest with himself and to seek out meaningful changes in his own way of life so that others might benefit. Thus, if Bell's definition of the "paradox of masculinity"--that in a changing world men must seek self-created notions of manhood, rather than rely on traditional models--seems frustratingly ambiguous, it is because Bell himself is still unsure of the answers. He has yet to finish growing...
...dissent, Chief Justice Warren Burger hammered away on a major theme of the current high court: deference to legislators. While conceding that the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law applies even to those illegally in the country (a seeming paradox to many laymen), Burger accused the majority of misusing that safeguard. "The Constitution," he said, "does not provide a cure for every social ill, nor does it vest judges with a mandate to try to remedy every social problem...