Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest paradox of academic work in modern America is that most professors teach most of the time, and large proportions of them teach all the time, but teaching is not the activity most rewarded by the academic profession nor most valued by the system at large," the report states. "Trustees and administrators in one sector after another praise teaching and reward research...
Most of the presidential hopefuls have taken advantage of this New Hampshire paradox by devoting time and resources to building grassroots support and making personal appearances in the state...
...Columbia Business School dean and many of his colleagues found something unsettling about Edleman's pedagogical techniques. The classroom is supposed to be a sacred refuge for higher pursuits Professors should not be in the practice of having their students turn a profit on their final exams. The paradox is a diffcult one: Edelman was literally teaching his students well, and yet he seemed to be engaging in practices inapproriate for an academic setting...
...paradox ultimately raises the question about how legitimate it is for Columbia to have a Business School in the first place. To condemn Edelman on the grounds that he was violating standards of the acadmey rings hollow. Columbia Business School Dean Thomas Burton sounds hopelessly naive when he says that Edleman would "bias the academic atmosphere" by offering a monetary incentive to students studying how to pull-off a corporate raid effectively. How academic a setting could a how-to-corporate-raid class ever be? How does one study in an intellectual way the practicing of making lots and lots...
Better than anyone else's, Zurbaran's work embodies the paradox of what the Spanish Counter-Reformation expected in church painting: that extreme spirituality lay in extreme realism. "Sometimes you might find a good painting lacking beauty and delicacy," Pacheco wrote in his Art of Painting. "If it possesses, however, force . . . and seems round like a solid object and lifelike and deceives the eye as if it were coming out of the picture frame," the lack of those qualities was forgiven. The real image made Christ or a saint real, ready to speak to you from the wall...