Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sport, and thus in the vestibules of academe--where bannister-sliding should indeed have flourished--students trudge on from class to class. The more optimistic hoped at the beginning of the decade that in this university--where great minds had already solved the Konigsberg Bridge problem and Zeno's Paradox--scholars might by now have found a way to slide up bannisters. But no, with the steady evolution of Harvard College into Harvard trade school, formidable scholars have no time for the sliders but spend all their time assisting the less-daring into medical schools and law schools...
...here Shaw is clouding the issue slightly for the sake of a paradox. Pitying the poor rich is only one aspect of this play's moral. Shaw is denouncing an economic system that allows the few to live off the many, and he is saying that it hurts everyone--even those at the top. On an even more fundamental level he is bemoaning a society--in fact, a world--where it has become impossible to have any faith or sense of purpose. Perhaps it was this moral that so disgruntled the critics...
Seeking the meaning of these remarks in Chenault's character and past, investigators found confusion and paradox. In the bluegrass country of Winchester, Ky., where he was raised, people remembered Wayne Chenault as quiet, easygoing and studious, a "nice boy" who had a newspaper route and attended Baptist church regularly with his devout parents. Later in Dayton, Ohio, where his father is now a chemical plant security guard, he was known as a clean-cut teen-ager who stayed out of trouble and was "always making people laugh...
...those of us who are not gentlemen, the paradox of football delights and intrigues. Albert Camus played goal. Sir Frederick Ayer, the philosopher, is a fan, and there is a sense in which soccer is a fair subject for a logical positivist. It is, after all, a precise and yet various system of semeiotics...
...well as Israel symbolizes a change in U.S. policy in the Middle East, which has suffered for years from what he calls the "seesaw" effect-"if you go up with Israel, you go down with the Arabs." Now Eban sees both ends of the seesaw rising, a "spectacular paradox" that could greatly aid stability in the region...