Word: conundrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hears all and who proves to be on target about everything else, says he never left his seat. But most of the time Diddy's deed seems the least of the author's concerns, for she is too busy with other things: writing the kind of "modernistic" conundrum that was fashionable in the '20s, folding in essays on alienation and editorials on Viet...
Israel's conquest of Jordanian Jerusalem, which sent thousands of devout Jews to pray in freedom before the historic Wailing Wall for the first time in centuries, has raised an interesting theo logical conundrum. Assuming that Israel keeps the Wall, which is one of the few remaining ruins of Judaism's Second Temple, has the time now come for the erection of the Third Temple...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL. Old (94) Mathematician-Philosopher Russell's own witty account of his dour and dotty early life and career never explains-but does help people understand-why he is such a conundrum...
...young scholar just out of Cambridge at the turn of the century, Bertrand Russell confronted a baffling conundrum. On one side of a piece of paper was written: "The statement on the other side of this paper is false." On the other side it read: "The statement on the other side of this paper is false...
...Earl Russell, now 94, presents a psychological conundrum of a similar order. Renowned mathematician, logician, philosopher and Nobel prizewinner, he writes English with all the precision and lucidity of which the language is capable. Yet for all its clarity and wit, the first volume, instantly acclaimed in England as a classic, leaves unresolved problems of character. To some, he is a crypto-mystic, to others, a heartless brain. Most recently he has become an excessively emotional organizer of peace marches who mouths anti-American propaganda drivel...