Word: paradoxically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Westerner recently returned from Peking suggests another reason for the paradox of record crops and ration cuts. He reported that the citizens of Peking, fearing the day when they will be herded into people's communes, have started hoarding food and gorging themselves in the city's renowned restaurants. By withholding food, the Reds are squeezing the city dweller into the communal mess hall. "When the private food hoards are gone and people cannot buy much on the local markets," the Western visitor reported, "they will be forced to eat in the community kitchens...
...Nobel Prize for literature. The nature of Pasternak's achievement is one that does not lend itself to headlines, but is nevertheless of the deepest concern to journalism. Says TIME: "Pasternak has called his book's tremendous success the 'Zhivago miracle,' but the paradox of the Pasternak miracle is equally compelling. He is a stubborn man who is not really a martyr. He is an aggrieved man and yet not an avenger. He is a man without weapons, wielding 'the irresistible power of unarmed truth.' Most paradoxically of all, out of Communist Russia...
Pasternak has called his book's tremendous success the "Zhivago miracle," but the paradox of the Pasternak miracle is equally compelling. He is a stubborn man who is not really a martyr. He is an aggrieved man and yet not an avenger. He is a man without weapons, wielding "the irresistible power of unarmed truth." Most paradoxically of all, out of Communist Russia, a society that officially denies the existence of God, Pasternak has sent a deeply Christian statement of the condition of man, such as most writers of the professedly Christian West are too embarrassed or too unbelieving...
...which touch up her rather disfiguring freckles, played the leading role with all the tender delicacy it deserved; a man whose name I could not read played the part of a collossal boor with collossal boorishness; and there were many lovelies who displayed their carefully concealed charms (a seeming paradox) with the poise and savior seduire which can come only from several year's experience in French export films...
...easily forgotten. The comment is indicative despite its derogatory aspect. A painter can usually, or should ideally, be able to project his knowledge and instinct beyond his taste, the last mentioned being surface matter in the business of criticism. It was this gentleman's taste which created the paradox. What the incident evokes is the fact that Lyonel Feininger's work is that of a painter's painter. He always commanded the respect of his fellow artists. That is no easy thing to achieve and there are few accolades better worth having...