Word: paradoxity
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Lastly, by pointing out merely the paradox of such anti-democratic action, the editors did not go far enough in their analysis. The students must be made to realize that the Detroit incident is only one fact of the huge attempt to divide the American people and provide propaganda for fascist agents among our present and prospective allies. Klansmen and Christian Fronters are not only had Americans, but more importantly, very good Nazis. Their crime is not so much against the constitutional rights of a minority but against the national effort to smash Hitlerism. Harvard Inter Race Council
...Congress against the reactionary Clare Hoffman of Michigan. Mr. Sandburg hasn't committed himself one way or another on his candidacy, though the pressure for him to decide in the affirmative is fortunately increasing daily. If such a political contest were to take place, it would dramatically underline the paradox of the two different kinds of democracy for which Americans are fighting today. On the one hand would be Carl Sandburg representing the forces believing in progressive, twentieth-century democracy, and on the other Clare Hoffman, the little white god of believers in stagnant, Victorian democracy--the status quo boys...
...paradox was more easily solved when General George Washington was to be awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. With the University at its temporary wartime quarters in Concord, the Corporation and several of the Overseers met in Water-town and on April 3 voted Washington the degree That same day they made the award at the General's headquarters in Craigie House...
M.P.s and Britons as a whole were satisfied that Sir Stafford had presented his case well, seemingly forgot that only last month Lord Beaverbrook had loomed as the powerhouse in British politics. In Sir Stafford's rise and Beaverbrook's fall there was a curious political paradox. Though Lord Beaverbrook played an infinitely more important role than Sir Stafford in improving Anglo-Soviet relations, the Beaver had to make way for the people's choice. But Canadian-born M.P. Garfield Weston (a biscuit tycoon) had another version: "We are told that Lord Beaverbrook has gone because...
...Metapolitics" contains a summary of all of Viereck's views on Nazlism. It also is a seeming paradox, since it contains those sentiments of diehard opposition to totalitarian principles one would least expect from a man of his parentage. But Viereck has led a very individual life...