Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...madman of integrity like William Blake. Why, then-Western minds would like to know-doesn't Nehru the moralist make Nehru the leader hang his head in shame? Perhaps he does; but the practical West, which must deal with net results, is necessarily less concerned with Nehru the paradox than with Nehru the politico...
...Rudi Bing, the paradox of the old Met is the fact that, despite the old sets and old costumes, standbys such as Traviata and Trovatore "still sell out the house." His task, he thinks, is "to get the public to demand new and better productions." He has to admit, from box-office records, that so far "the public just does not care." But, says Rudi Bing, with the look of a man setting out to do something about it: "I do care...
...very encouraging study. U.S. troops, defeated in a great battle, had established a new line in the lower part of an Asiatic appendix. China was under complete Communist control. In the two years since he became Secretary, the U.S. had become entangled in a paradox: insisting that its real concern was Europe, it nevertheless now had virtually all its effective soldiers in Asia. Europe, instead of being reassured by all the earnests of U.S. help, was filled with doubts and suspicions...
...Morbidity and mortality are specialized doctors' words to describe the ravages of disease. Morbidity means the number of sick, mortality the number of dead. For years doctors in the U.S. and Britain have been puzzling over a paradox in the morbidity and mortality rates of tuberculosis: while TB mortality has declined fairly steadily, morbidity has been rising. One possible explanation: doctors have become sharper-eyed in detecting new cases...
...This paradox of the Twentieth Century--the mushrooming of good and evil side by side--is easily illustrated. On the one hand, it has been a century of extraordinary material and scientific progress, of a remarkable lengthening of the human life span, of a widening of access to the world's cultural heritage from the very few to many more. It has been a half century of the emancipation of women, of the growth of democracy, of Wilsonian idealism and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights...