Word: enigma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...utilizing his talent for "communication, conciliation and consensus in an unusually successful way." At the time, Pollster Patrick Caddell likened Cuomo to Sandy Koufax when he was riding the Dodger bench. Everyone knew Koufax had enormous potential. Then one day Koufax found his control and went from being an enigma to one of the most overwhelming pitchers ever. Cuomo, said Caddell, almost overnight became "one of the most awesome candidates I've ever dealt with...
...being an unknown quantity. It's true. I don't have any record of past decisions except being a candidate. But I don't think I am an enigma. I am not a traditional politician. So whatever I say is what I mean; it is not something else. I think I should follow my gut feelings. However, I still have to learn not to be too frank, not to give the truthful answer right away. I have these men around me who are just so overprotective. They say, "Should we let her speak...
AIDS is a medical enigma up to a point, but enough is known about it that a positive educational campaign based on what is known already had an immense effect in reducing the rate of its spread. According to Dr. Forstein, sexually- transmitted diseases have decreased by 75 to 80 percent in the gay community in the last two years, much of this decrease resulting directly from AIDS education. But as long as people are putting themselves and others at unecessary risk without a clear awareness of that risk, there is a long road ahead. The Crimson does well...
...comment briefly on the matter of Martin Kilson, Professor of Government at Harvard University, and the controversy surrounding his critisism in the Harvard Crimson of certain black students' activities. First it should be understood that Kilson is, to paraphrase Churchill's remark about the Russians, an inscrutable enigma wrapped in a mystery. In other words, anyone even casually acquainted with Kilson's political and intellectual history recognizes immediately that he is a figure of considerable complexity. His intuitive and scholarly comprehension of obscure dialects of black life is frequently brilliant and shrewd. Yet his analysis has also been, on occasion...
...fact that, as Jean states so simply, "Life is dangerous...And sometimes there's nothing you can do." In much of his writing, Hare catches and ponders all the disturbing signs, the unfocused anger of English life. But thankfully he doesn't really try to explain the enigma of John Morgan when he's actually much better at capturing these other lives, the less literally bloody lives containing repressed sensibilities, inarticulated needs or, yes, measured contentment and hope...