Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Polish Paradox...
Strikes in Poland [Sept. 15] have exposed a paradox of modern history: no external force could shake the closed citadel of a Communist regime except the very workers who were regarded as the vanguard of the proletarian revolution...
...paradox is explained by simple chronology--Cambridge history, for the most part, had been written by 1900. And that's when the Italians began to arrive. Of the 5 million Italians who immigrated to America, 4, million arrived between 1880 and 1920, with the vast majority just before...
Reagan and his aides are expecting a recurrence of a traditional paradox: conservative Republicans with impeccable anti-Communist credentials have got along better with the rulers in Moscow than have liberal Democrats. Cracked a Soviet official recently: "At least we can be confident that Reagan would not invite Brzezinski to stay in the White House." As though to encourage just that sort of thinking in Moscow, Allen says, "While Reagan would be firm toward the Soviets, he would also be consistent and prudent; he would not be truculent or confrontational...
...Awash in his hard-won Catholic faith, T.S. Eliot spun Murder in the Cathedral in 1935 out of the stuff of the ritual he was preoccupied with and the metaphysical poetry he esteemed. Since then, its readers have appreciated its poetic merit, but its audiences have sat uncomfortably as paradox and conceit flew by, just out of their grasp...