Word: paradoxity
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...film also contains an interesting paradox. It is heartening to see reading touted as an important, powerful activity after dozens of films like Joysticks and Footloose touting the mindless. But, ironically, Bastian does not read the book curled up at home in front of the fire; he cuts a math test and spends the night in the school's attic reading by candlelight. Sure, reading and imagination are important--but they're not complete and absolute excuses for ignoring everything else...
...democratic principles. But if Israel accepts them as citizens, the country will become a Jewish-Palestinian state, erasing its heritage as the Jewish homeland. "When you think of this situation in the light of Jewish history and the struggle of Jews for equality of right and status, the paradox becomes agonizing," says former Foreign Minister Abba Eban...
Some of the best minds of the age have tried to rationalize their way around this ghastly paradox: the reliance of the human race for its safety on the instruments of its own destruction...
...leaders of the U.S. have made a policy of that paradox. It is called deterrence: if our enemy believes we will use our nukes against him, he will not use his against us. The Kremlin operates on a similar principle...
...back on it now, their words seem to trip over each other, rapid and contradictory, as if welcoming the chance to try to make sense of a year they even yet do not really understand. Most seem to agree that at the center of their freshman year was a paradox: Lionel was one of the closest groups of friends they had ever been a part of, almost a family, yet at the same time its individual members were so radically different in background and temperament that it soon became clear that the center could not hold. "They certainly tried...