Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Athena sprang full-grown from the brow of Zeus, much of 20th century drama sprang from the mind of Luigi Pirandello. His plays are intellectual position papers outlining the dominant themes of dramatists to come-alienation, absurdity, metaphysical paradox, and an almost eerie psychological portraiture. Since The Rules of the Game is an early Pirandello play, dating from 1919, these themes appear in relatively embryonic form. In some ways, Rules most nearly resembles the young Pirandello's naturalistic short stories, set against the backdrop of his birthplace, Sicily. Like them, it evolves along what might be called Mafia lines...
...recent years, Jackson, 51, has devoted an increasing amount of tune to his own record commitments and freelance playing. His drive for a separate career illustrates a paradox of ensemble playing. Four men with enough talent and discipline to play as one usually want to be heard alone too. Lewis, 54, the composer-arranger, said emphatically that the break was permanent, but it is hard not to hope that the group will rejoin for records if not for concerts...
...Ingmar Bergman seems to say in his movie made for Swedish TV. At the end of the movie, years after their divorce, Bergman's characters Marianne and Johan have each remarried and smoothed out their lives enough to have a new affair with each other. Marianne, originally a paradox-woman whose ability as a divorce lawyer and counselor can't hide her personal inability to see the inconsistencies in herself and her marriage, has emerged from the trauma that surrounded her life from the time Johan left her. She questions more, she likes sex more--these are the modern cliches...
...intriguing paradox. Why don't you have super capable young women, outstanding men, and it's still just like third grade: Smart girls don't talk? This comes down to relationships in which girls will hold their fire and not discuss things that really should be discussed with a guy they're living with or seeing because of that "fragile male...
...Young people] recognize the paradox of the joyless herald of the Good News and are repelled by it." Even more strongly, Bernard Cardinal Alfrink of The Netherlands asked the bishops to "examine their consciences" to see if they did not "obscure the image of the church and damage her credibility...