Word: paradoxity
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What seems most remarkable about Thailand is not that the twain never quite meet, but that the East has made so much progress in ways of the West. Thailand's roads are remarkable; her trains run on time. The curious paradox in Thailand's position is that being on Japan's little list for Greater East Asia, she is threatened by an eastern power which has developed western techniques of warfare. Last week Thailand was doing what she could to neutralize her paradox...
...life filled with paradox. Winston Churchill, who writes some of the finest historical prose of his time, never went to college. The future Chancellor of the Exchequer had a hard time with simple arithmetic. Son of an antimilitarist, Winston rushed enthusiastically into the Army. As a war correspondent on almost perpetual furlough from his regiment, he was in the thick of fierce fighting on three continents...
Every Briton loves a paradox. Last week the man whom many had begun to call the greatest Prime Minister Britain ever had-whom all conceded to be one of her profoundest initiates in the artifices of rhetoric-was the subject...
...paradox that the Conservative Party, which by definition is opposed to change, to risks of any sort, to anything "unsound," should elect as its leader Winston Churchill, the most daring and, in the word's best sense, most radical leader in the country. This paradox was consummated by a unanimous vote of the Party after the resignation fortnight ago of that composite of conservatism, Neville Chamberlain...
...Another paradox: Britons do not mind being told the worst but refuse to believe anything but the best. Winston Churchill knows this well, and one of the qualities which make his words reverberate with heroism is his ability to tell bad news and make it seem somehow good-to make gloomy sentences add up to buoyant paragraphs. Last week he spoke of casualties, property destruction, difficulties-of production, the flub at Dakar. His doom-ridden peroration was a bright passage in the literature of hope...