Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clara and her prince. But there is no Sugar Plum Fairy and the cast is entirely adult. Clara, danced by Marianna Tcherkassky, hovers somewhere between child and woman. Her godfather Drosselmeyer, brilliantly portrayed by Alexander Minz, is both fatherly and aboil with suppressed eroticism. Baryshnikov accents mystery and the paradox of the light and dark faces of the human soul. Stage Designer Boris Aronson's huge painted panels and fantasy murals form a surreal backdrop for the enchanted events of the ballet...
Duty can be frivolous as well as stern, and it is a pleasant enough to report that the production of The Pirates of Penzance now at the Agassiz is nothing short of triumphant. It is no paradox that the Gilbert and Sullivan Players present the very best in Harvard theater with admirable consistency: they draw consistently on the same, very talented mix of regulars to play analagous parts in show after show...
...recent editorials in The Crimson raise a paradox. The first deplored the "pervasive influence of corporate contributions" on the Massachusetts referenda; the second hailed Jimmy Carter's election '"triumph" when "members of major industrial unions supported him nationally by a two to one margin...
...paradox is particularly apparent when one realizes that the AFL-CIO spent over five and one half million dollars in the 1976 campaign to have Jimmy Carter elected president under a law that bars corporate contributions to campaigns yet allows unions virtually unlimited spending through their "political education" committees...
Oscar Wild's masterpiece is half-satire and all farce. Its humor is partly topical, rooted in the decadence of the late Victorian aristocracy and gentry. But its farcical underpinnings allow it to date unusually well. Wilde's dialogue abounds in inversion and paradox, in the replacement of the weighty with the insubstantial. His characters talk nonsense with a straight face and flout verbal conventions while remaining always socially correct...