Word: enigma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often a perplexing task for Freshmen to pick a place to live, and this year it is even more of an enigma than it used to be. For the Houses no longer seem to have the seven distinctly different personalities that they once had; save for a few surface peculiarities, they are pretty much the same. And there is a new consideration that cannot be discounted: with the vacancies far outnumbered by the Freshmen anxious to fill them, picking one of the more popular Houses may not be the shrewdest possible move...
Since the flight from Bordeaux to England on June 18, 1940 which made him famous, he has been an enigma to many. Once, however, he painted a revealing self-portrait : a passage in his remarkable, prophetic book, The Army of the Future,* published by Colonel de Gaulle in 1934. He wrote: "The depth, the singularity, the self-sufficiency of a man made for great deeds is not popular except at critical times. Although when in contact with him one is conscious of a superiority which compels respect, he is seldom liked. Moreover, his faculties, shaped for heroic feats, despise...
Stalin was something of an enigma and Churchill, says Reilly, was completely understood only by Fala, the President's photogenic Scottie. Churchill once sent Roosevelt a dozen records of his favorite speeches. They were smashed when Secret Service agents became suspicious of the package. "I told F.D.R. of his loss," Reilly reports, "and he resigned himself to it rather easily...
Inside Job. The Paris press, suddenly waking up to what France-Soir called "the most extraordinary enigma in criminal history," screamed MURDER. As a horde of reporters and cameramen built the case into a sensational story, a stocky, methodical detective named Edmond Bascou, one of the Sûreté Nationale's best, took over the investigation...
...form of writing in which the central characters' thoughts take the place of dialogue and the awkward conversation of most amateur pieces is neatly side-stepped. Immediately noticeable is Miss Worley's economical and effective use of words. Only an unnecessary first paragraph mars here technical effort. "The Enigma," her heavyweight contribution dealing with love on idealistic and physical levels, has many fine observations and insights. The sensitive theme is handled maturely and whether or not the psychology of the story rings true probably depends to a large extent upon the reader's own experience...