Word: paradoxity
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...destroy hunger? Or simply make man never to yearn again, Never dread dawn or fear the darkness longer? He did not say, We hunger not and need Not then be filled. Rather, I am not the first, Nor last, but only One of you to bleed With the paradox of thirst, to cry, "I thirst...
Challenge & Paradox. For many Jews this will be a hard teaching. God has chosen them for a special purpose, but seemingly the price of God's election has been a bitter portion. Exile, humiliation and persecution have dogged them through history, from Babylon to Buchenwald. Persecution has driven the Jews in upon themselves; they have sometimes set up barriers against the world simply in order to survive. But of what use is their survival, asks Louis Finkelstein, if their mission is forgotten...
...essence of that mission is a challenging paradox: to be a people set apart -and yet not apart. Louis Finkelstein calls on the withdrawn Jew to serve his old persecutors, his brothers, to join the human race; and calls on the assimilated Jew to take up his heritage...
Steaks on the Hoof. The paradox is that the U.S. is short of meat when it has more beef on the hoof than ever before in its history. By year's end, there will be an estimated 90 million cattle on the ranges v. 1945's alltime peak of 85,573,000. Yet, because of OPS snarls, 10% fewer cattle are now being slaughtered than last year. And despite record meat prices, packers, who traditionally make only 1? on every $1 of sales, can hardly break even (Armour lost $1,600,000 in its latest quarter...
...strength of Christianity is paradoxical. In France, which is generally anticlerical, and which counts a fourth of its population as Communists, Catholicism is more alive and creative than elsewhere in the modern world. As a further paradox, some of France's Catholic leaders are viewed askance, as flirting with heresy, by the Vatican itself...