Word: paradoxically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...place where lasting music will be built is where the two great roads of popularity and of lasting beauty interest. In the pursuit of music, as in the acquirement of every form of artistic expression, we encounter the aesthetic paradox, that what we like first we seldom like best--that we prefer our second choice to our first...
Cautiously, Premier Joseph Laniel and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault tried to extract a policy out of the paradox of a war France could find no way to win yet dared not lose. The Geneva Conference was not far off. The National Assembly demanded to know how the government proposed to stand when the diplomats at Geneva discussed Indo-China...
Expansion of Japanese exports must come in the production of steel, machinery, and other heavy industry. Here, Western markets are closed because of their more economical production of these goods. Japan's paradox is that, in the Far East, where heavy industry is so plainly needed, the markets still remain shut to Japan. One reason for this abstinence is an ingrained hatred of Japan left over from wartime abuses. But far more important are the crippled economics of the Eastern countries. Bridled by antiquated methods of production, the mainland countries, far from exporting food, can barely manage to feed their...
...specimen to find-if he exists. A few, in the blues of Count Basie, do "wear Brooks clothes/ And white shoes all the time:/ Get three C's, a D,/ And think checks from home sublime." But of all U.S. campuses. Harvard is pre-eminently the land of paradox. It is the home of the Last Puritan and the first New Dealer. It has turned out Autocrats of the Breakfast Table (Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1829), the dinner table (Lucius Beebe, 1927), the atomic table (J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1926), and the timetable (President Walter Franklin of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...story mixes evaluations of the University ("Of all U.S. campuses, Harvard is pre-eminently the land of paradox") and its new president ("Wherever he went, he was a success. Though never a flashy lecturer, he had an enthusiasm for books and men, and his enthusiasm was contagious...