Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corps here say that we French are now only little boys. That is a view we cannot accept. To Frenchmen, you Americans are still the Americans of 1918. But Americans no longer regard us as the victorious Frenchmen of 1918. Yet we are the same France today. If this paradox is recognized, we can resume the friendly relationship to which we aspire. Today Frenchmen are suffering-and so we are very sensitive." A French resistance leader, recently arrived in London, said: "Some of us could not understand the Allies' policy in North Africa. To us who have worked...
...expert Herbert Feis it was once said "he looks like Harpo and talks like Karl Marx." The Harpo crack is an exaggeration, the Karl part a misunderstanding. Feis, a Hoover holdover, loves fast conversation and the intellectual paradox, but, stripped of provocative verbiage, his opinions would be generally acceptable. Never a New Dealer, he belongs to none of Washington's "ideological" factions...
Later in the week, when ex-Congressional Tax Expert Fred Vinson, now stuck with the job of Economic Stabilizer, appeared to urge the same program, he submitted figures that dramatically underlined this Administration paradox...
Unorthodox Orthodoxy. No man was more unorthodox than Chesterton-in his appearance and view of orthodoxy. Author of some 100 novels, stories, plays, volumes of poems, biographies (studies of William Cobbett, Charles Dickens, Chaucer), he was one of modern Britain's keenest literary minds and a master of paradox. A passionate journalist (for 40 years Chesterton wrote for a dozen papers), he was the creator of one of literature's famed sleuths (Father Brown) and the most prominent Roman Catholic convert of his day. A devotee of beer and wine, he weighed between 300 and 400 Ib. Once...
...Weekly, Chesterton summed up his view of modern man: "There is a sense in which men may be made normally happy; but there is another sense in which we may truly say, without undue paradox, that what they want is to get back to their normal unhappiness. At present they are suffering from an utterly abnormal unhappiness. They have got all the tragic elements essential to the human lot to contend with; time and death and bereavement and unrequited affection and dissatisfaction with themselves. But they have not got the elements of consolation and encouragement that ought normally to renew...