Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What keeps Stevenson on the go is a paradox as a roving correspondent of the Star, he takes his orders from the city desk, and whenever he runs out of assignments and returns to Toronto, he is routinely assigned to the 7 a.m. rewrite shift to work on obits. To avoid this, he thinks up his own assignments, e.g., hunting the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas, when the foreign front is relatively quiet...
...particular reason and with no particular duties." The men of this breed must find Kirk a very peculiar intellectual indeed. Can he mean it when he writes that "for the Christian, freedom is submission to the will of God"? Kirk does mean it, and this is no paradox. "We are free in proportion as we recognize our real duties and our real limitations...
...Jane may result in something worse. To Mrs. Frances C. Sayers, former superintendent of work with children at the New York Public Library, one reason so few (17%) Americans read books after leaving school is just because their early ones are so simple and so pleasant. "This seems a paradox, and it is. The paradox is in the word 'enjoyment.' We rob the children of the initial enjoyment of wrestling with reading by making all the words too simple and making the sentences too short and saying too little and feeling nothing at all. Children want...
Basque-born Unamuno had a Spanish flair for paradox-he insisted that the fictional Don Quixote was a greater and a realer man than Don Quixote's creator, Cervantes. This kind of jugglery between the balloons of fiction and the cannonballs of fact made Unamuno an enigmatic figure-and in Catholic, reactionary Spain, a suspect and controversial one. In 1891, when he was 27, he became professor of Greek at Salamanca, and was appointed rector ten years later. He stoutly rejected any obligation to impose coherence on his thought and backed up his stand by the consistent inconsistency...
...filled apartment in Manhattan's East 80s, or met his nine-year-old daughter Isabel, or two sons, James 16, and Roger 14. A prodigious reader and prolific writer, Barzun has seen fit to arrange his routine with an almost classic precision. But this is something of a paradox, for Barzun's chief interest as a cultural historian has been not classicism, but romanticism...