Word: paradoxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poland today finds itself in the midst of a strange, modern paradox, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, after a six week visit to the newly separate satellite...
...answer to the paradox of prosperity-plus-rebellion is that Batista and Castro supporters agree on many economic issues. Though the men who drop the bombs are often wild young radicals, the brains and money behind the movement come from a group of conservative business and professional men. They want free elections, but insist they intend no swing toward the left. Said one such Castro supporter: "This year I have earned more money than ever before in my life. This has left my mind at ease so I could concentrate on my revolutionary work...
...orthodoxy . . . But there is the danger of thinking that we can confront the world like that, and if we do we fall into the same confusion as there was in Jerusalem at Pentecost-we excite some to Godly praise but others to perplexity and contempt . . . And there is the paradox that because the great Church has not yet learned to agree sufficiently in the use of its corporate weapons of the Holy Spirit, the World Council of Churches offers to help the great Church to find itself and do its work of worship, witness and service, or indeed sets...
...paradox of the waning 1950s is that prosperity has become the root of problems. From Buffalo to Bombay, prosperity-fueled inflation is gnawing at the consumer's pocketbook, and the high cost of money is crimping the expansion plans of business and industry. The problem (which the Finns call "a crisis of prosperity") is reported and analyzed in BUSINESS, World Capital Shortage, and FOREIGN NEWS, Life on the Escalator...
...Shaw will not let one off with a simple dichotomy; clearly there is a paradox and Hell is not all it's cracked up to be. Don Juan, the hero, chooses to escape to Heaven, while the stupid, if pitiable, Ramsden prefers to prolong his visit to the pleasure pots of Hell. No review can do justice to an interpretation of the play, but suffice to say that Man and Superman has paradoxes, ambivalences, and deeper meanings which the actors present clearly and without strain...