Word: paradoxical
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...course, Project Fun shares a certain paradox with the new crop of organizations promoting spontaneous social life. “We’re institutionalizing recess, which should be just a pickup game or something,” Lurie admits. Still, he says, “You gotta do what you gotta do. Desperate times call for desperate measures...
...paradox as a teacher: he was shy, but he connected far beyond the usual teacher-student relationship,” said Vorenberg, who is now assistant professor of history at Brown University...
...would typically use only in a literature class--simile, personification--had always been avoided on the SAT, on the theory that a student should get credit for being able to comprehend the phrase "Youth is wasted on the young" even if he doesn't know to call it a paradox. No more. Although the committee decided that the most arcane lit terms (metonymy, for instance) won't appear on the SAT, terms like simile are now fair game...
...Pontiff is no longer capable of carrying out his duties. John Paul's biographer, Giancarlo Zizola, says the gathering of the Cardinals would be the ideal occasion for the Pope to surprise the world with the announcement of his retirement. But he doubts it will happen: "There's a paradox," he says. "If the Pope has the capacity to make such a decision, it means he still has the capacity to run the Church." John Paul seems determined to continue. After enduring a trip to Pompeii Tuesday, he returned by helicopter, and then was said to have met with bishops...
...contradictions. He was both a fighter and a compassionate defender. A man of logic and passion. An artist and a critic. A visionary of the future with an understanding of tradition. He fought for Palestinian rights while understanding Jewish suffering, and did not see this posture as a paradox. We founded the West-East Divan as a forum where young Israeli and Arab musicians understood that before Beethoven we all stand as equals. I shall never forget his making a room full of young Arabs, Israelis and Germans understand that the devil exists in all of us, that Weimar, where...