Word: conundrum
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...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...
Throughout the 15-year wrangle over the effects of smoking on health, women smokers have offered a medical conundrum. Although they puff at cigarettes with the same freedom as men, they do not suffer as much lung cancer...
...surprisingly, the N.A.A.C.P. is appealing to the state's highest court. It is also working on other test cases, and is determined if necessary to give the Supreme Court a crack at California's constitutional conundrum...