Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus arises the paradox of the representative becoming divorced from the group he is supposed to represent. Even as a leader in his activity, the student-leader represents the members of his club only while they are in the club building; once out of it, the two groups are again servered...
First of all, these two outlooks are made to be appalling immature. They seem all the more so when the exhibition's "naturalistic" section illuminates a paradox which unites these two emotional extremes. Suddenly all the shouting stops, all the drama ends and rigor mortis begins to set in. The least trickle of spontaneous life is suddenly replaced with the dimmest pedantry. The right word is not naturalistic but academic. Here is a depressing union of the accomplished hand and the earthbound...
...sang as prettily as usual. Betsy Peterson Spiro, as the first wife, brought off her torch song effectively, complete with sultry advances toward Master Perkins, who was lucky enough to be in the first row. Harvey White and Mai Brigitta Milk handled the Eunuch "without an operation" and the "paradox" as cleanly as possible. Mr. Rinzler, except for a tendency toward rock'n'roll left over from last year, sang well, and the minor roles were done with spirit...
...flapdoodle ... If my remarks have hurt Brown, that can only prove that football is more sanctified than any of us has estimated. The only way to really help is to bring football back into the dialogue, to subject it to all the resources of the dialogue, including wit, humor, paradox...
...razzle-dazzle paradox of his ideas, Paul Tillich is a solid, serious, dedicated thinker. If his critics say that his theology comes close to draining the meaning from all traditional Christian concepts, he replies that, for all too many Christians, these concepts lost their meaning long ago. What Tillich has been trying to do all his life is to make the Christian message meaningful for 20th century man in all his "estrangement." Tillich's greatest appeal is not to full-fledged believers but to the seekers after faith...