Word: paradoxity
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...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...
...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...