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Anent earlier items by Timothy Hayes [XI, 4] and by Richard Lederer [XII, 4] on the oxymoron , I submit some oxymora found in local advertising:
“ Retrogressive aggrandizements,” maybe, but that's an oxymoron of another colour entirely.
The landmark Swann suit had its origins in the 1955 Supreme Court decision known as Brown II . Brown II gummed up the initial 1954 Brown ruling--which had decreed segregated schools unconstitutional--by saying, in a now-infamous oxymoron, that desegregation should proceed "with all deliberate speed."
Oxymoron derives from the Greek oxymoros meaning pointedly foolish, which itself derives from oxy- , a combining form meaning sharp (from the Greek oxus meaning sharp) and moron (from the Greek moros meaning dull).
I also hope that the oxymoron will remind me to include applause as well as condemnation in my dispatches.