Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, partook of "the astonishment of Moliere's character on learning that he has been speaking prose" all his life. Suddenly, there was the commercial vernacular of America, that amniotic fluid in which every collector had been nurtured, right there on the museum wall. And the curious paradox was that, in Lichtenstein's case, the fluid -those cartoon images of teen-agers and Korean War jets-was transparent. After a while the imagery hardly got in the way at all, and Lichtenstein could be treated as a formalist much more readily than, say, Claes Oldenburg, with...
Some avoided the paradox, supported by progressive parents who dispelled the notion that a woman had to choose between a career and motherhood. Marina von Neumann Whitman, for example, credits her family's unspoken "assumption that anyone with talent could succeed" with her ability to persevere despite the "conflicting signals" at Radcliffe. Radcliffe gave a wonderful intellectual freedom as well as the expectation that we automatically had to be mothers. This we either didn't notice or took for granted." says Whitman, who was recently named vice president and chief economist of the General Motors Corporation after being a protessor...
...Enigma of Felix Frankfurter attempts a full-scale analysis of this outsize paradox of a man. Author H.N. Hirsch, a Harvard government professor, is to be congratulated on his audacity as well as his scholarship. Psychobiography is a risky undertaking; putting a Supreme Court Justice on the couch is downright breathtaking...
...striking paradox about Giscard's slump is that under his leadership France in 1981 is one of the world's most prosperous nations. The French standard of living has risen more in the past seven years than that of any other country except Japan. Slums are rare. The world's most ambitious nuclear energy program is well under way, making France the only nation in Western Europe capable of reducing significantly its dependence on ever costlier oil. "The country looks good," says a Western diplomat in Paris. "The quality of life is marvelous...
Elsewhere a veteran brushes with paradox: "I was engaged in the one activity which is the ultimate macho experience. Within that I found myself and others capable of a tenderness which society only assumes of women." Military Nurse Gayle Smith found all such assumptions turned upside down. "I never knew what the word hate was until . . . I would have dreams about putting a .45 to someone's head and see it blow away-over and over again. I remember one of the nurses saying, 'Would you be interested in working on the Vietnamese ward?' And I said...