Word: paradoxity
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...Messiaen's use of bird song in his work seems at once avant-garde and traditional, the paradox is typical. He is a fervent Roman Catholic who feels a primitive reverence for nature, a musical innovator who retains his childhood love for Mozart and Chopin. Although he stands aloof from the factions of the music scene, he is a teacher and champion of such different composers as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen...
John Monro, the do-gooder and the administrator, may suffer because of the paradox. To some he often seems to strain under the shackles of his position. One member of the Harvard Policy Committee, on which Monro sits as one of five Faculty members, left after a year of informal contact with the dean convinced that he had had his share of utopian educational ideas. "I got the feeling that without the constraints of being Harvard's dean, he pursue a radical education...
...body said yes, because her body was irresistably attracted to her lover's mind and by proving that she could ignore the feelings of her body she could prove that her love was binding because her body which would not bind her would be not binding. A paradox...
...over fashion proves the photographer dedicated. But in photographing the tragedy and problems of other people, the photographer in Blow-Up substitutes this for an understanding and eventual solution of his own problems. The reality of the photographs becomes the photographer's only reality. Antonioni, therefore, sets up a paradox: photography is the spiritual redeemer in the photographer's life, preventing him, for example, from participating the pantomime tennis game that ends the film. At the same time, it is a means of escape into an equally dangerous world of illusion...
...celebrated and interminable essay on Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre philosophizes to the effect that by aligning himself with the forces of evil Genet affirms the existence of the good, which makes him a moralist of a kind. But the Sartrean paradox does not altogether explain the demonic intensity and energy of Genet's writing. The source may be found in another French aphorist, Baudelaire, who said that "Everyman who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul." As a corollary, he who accepts the conditions of life-as Genet accepts the worst life can dish out-presumably...