Word: conundrum
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...nervous breakdown. Stokes shows two sides of Willum: one is calm, as in the scene where he delivers a story laying on the floor and looking dreamy; the other one is much more neurotic, shoulders heavy with burden, sweating, panting, and turning more and more pale with each new conundrum. Throughout most of the play, Stokes leans towards the latter disposition, letting on that while he may seem more normal than the other characters he has still been reduced to a neurotic mess by all the freaky incidents. His is a likable protagonist, though, because he is perseverant...
...summer of conferencing and consulting left Fox with a generally satisfying, albeit temporary, solution to the floating head conundrum--the bust will be set in Widener's reading room for the next 12 months...
...growth of multiculturalism can make hip more difficult. It's harder to feel genuinely alienated at a time when almost everyone can claim membership in some ethnic or sexual subnation, leaving the fearsome notion of an all-powerful mainstream to shrivel accordingly. All this could be called the Lollapalooza conundrum, in honor of the alternative rock tour and its organizers, who are always wondering what will make the thing alternative in a culture that constantly muddies the question. As Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell recently told an interviewer, "now the underground is like a menu with too many things...
...that is the conundrum. How do you draw the line between a spontaneous, high-energy person who is feeling overwhelmed by the details of life and someone afflicted with a neurological disorder? Where is the boundary between personality and pathology? Even an expert in the field like the University of Chicago's Mark Stein admits, "We need to find more precise ways of diagnosing it than just saying you have these symptoms." Barkley also concedes the vagueness. The traits that constitute ADHD "are personality characteristics," he agrees. But it becomes pathology, he says, when the traits are so extreme that...
...emphasizing the severity of the benefits funding conundrum, knowles echoed Jaeger's comments last week...