Word: paradoxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human behavior is concerned, to characterize the debate as biological determinism is a dangerous and specious rhetorical ploy. Learning has an evolved genetic basis with organized and discoverable characteristics leading to adaptation. Behavior can be, with no paradox, simultaneously the result of cultural and evolutionary forces, in equally meaningful but very different senses. Evolution shapes the nature of the developmental programming which guides learning, and socialization is the process by which the panhuman learning system adapts the individual to her or his cultural surroundings...
...Crucified God by Jürgen Moltmann (Harper & Row, 1974). A leading German Protestant theologian probes the central Christian paradox, God's identification with man through Christ's suffering on the Cross...
...greatest paradox is that American influence in Israel actually carries over into the Arab world. For 25 years Egypt attempted militarily to extort demands from Israel. When that try failed, Egypt applied diplomatic pressures, forcing the Arabs into dealing with the U.S. to bargain concessions from Israel. Only through a commitment to Israel can the U.S. influence Arab policy...
Wealth! Its attainment is such a paradox! The bees were after it, and came to McKay's garden expecting it. But none of them ever became rich, because a fortuitous accident is required for that; hard work is never sufficient. Bees are not eligible for much in the way of wealth, in spite of their integrity. This was how McKay explained it to himself as he knotted...
Adams' photographs are too thoughtful and rigorous to be called nostalgic. But some of their poignancy comes from the paradox of their making. The replicated image and its mechanical multiplication of fact slowly wore down 19th century romanticism and moved irony to the center of modernist culture. The camera, as Critic Susan Sontag pointed out, makes us tourists, not just in Yosemite, but within all reality. With Adams, however, the camera became the romantic's last defense. There was no irony. What you felt?scrupulously and with great technical skill?is what...