Word: paradoxity
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When Columbia Records Inc. reissued some of its early Louis Armstrong recordings it ran into plenty of competition: some of the same records were already being sold by an obscure company called Paradox Industries, under the label "Jolly Roger." This pirate trademark was well justified, Columbia and Armstrong charged last week in a joint suit seeking to stop Paradox from selling the records and to collect damages. Paradox, they charged, had simply taken the old Columbia Armstrong records and pressed its own new ones from them...
...Paradox, a hole-in-the-wall outfit run by a 23-year-old Manhattan record collector named Dante Bolletino, showed no sign of doing either. Bolletino had his records made by RCA's "custom pressing" department, which turns out records for many small companies. Some of Bolletino's pressings were even pirated from RCA's own Armstrong records. Bolletino cheerfully admitted that he had pressed from the original Columbia-owned records. But he insisted that he had violated no law, since copyrights do not cover records. He had not copied Columbia's trademark, which would have...
Nick was popular and a paradox. On the surface, he was a roughhewn hellion, who prided himself in dressing sloppily, once showed up barefooted for a publicity picture. But Nick also had the squad's best scholastic record and liked to listen by the hour to classical operatic recordings. Planing to and from games, he would entertain his teammates by braying in a gravelly baritone the brokenhearted clown's famous lament from I Pagliacci...
...food industry, nothing has caught on faster than frozen orange juice. Its sales have soared from an initial 225,000 gallons five years ago to an estimated 31 million this past year. But the paradox is that the more juice the industry sells, the less money it. makes. Last year, both Minute Maid and Snow Crop-the industry's big two-had a rough time. The trouble? The cost of oranges skyrocketed from 46? a box to $2.12, while at retail the industry has been racked by price wars which have recently forced juice producers to sell below cost...
Buried here is Buckley's overwhelming fallacy. He says "...A researcher ought to be free to seek out his own conclusions, to make his own generalizations on the basis of his discoveries...It is a self-contained paradox to endow a researcher or a research organization with funds and to assert simultaneously what will come out of the investigations for which the funds are to be used. For obviously under such a formula, there is no reason for investigation to be undertaken at all." What Buckley terribly forgets is that the classroom is just as much a research organization...