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"Society and its contradictions become clear when you write about crime," he once said.
The more broadly you view the new national security strategy, the clearer its contradictions become.
When conceptual contradictions become too glaring, as in colleges' promises to be both rarefied and inclusive, there's a crisis, and the frame for the system shifts.
OWS's energy comes from anger at the perceived compliance of Washington with an agenda set on Wall Street, and its heightened contradictions become visible where its bodies smash into police truncheons, but somehow it has to keep in mind that what it's aiming for is government action.
The contradictions become glaringly apparent when Michael Gove talks about his desire for a traditionalist curriculum, "with children sitting in rows, learning the kings and queens of England … and proper mental arithmetic" (whenever I read that I can't help wondering what improper mental arithmetic is).
When that sort of thing happens — when experiential contradictions become acute — a window opens for people whom the legal theorist Cass R. Sunstein calls "norm entrepreneurs": those promulgating new standards that others can adopt and defend, redefining bad behavior (say, from homosexuality to homophobia), rewriting social models, and shifting the default settings of political culture.
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Deeper into the South, the project's contradictions became more difficult to manage.
During his long, sad, semi-public illness, those contradictions became not just fascinating but moving.
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Paama, in all her complexity and contradictions, becomes the real center of the story and a truly memorable character.
The contradiction became more evident with the police crackdown on the Chinese merchants.
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