Word: enigma
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...Newspaper and on Enigma...
...acquaintance of the elevated train was one more enigma in the skein of enigma that is Berlin. Berlin offers a kind of excitement to be found nowhere else in Europe. Here, the individual is suppressed by the ruin, the streams of propaganda from both sides, and by the constant awareness that he is sitting on a powder...
...Wasteful competition between denominations. Example: Enigma, Ga. has three churches-Baptist, Congregational and Methodist. None has a regular pastor, but they will not combine...
Versatile Enigma. Balanchine, all but idolized by his pupils, old and new, remains an enigma and a system of paradoxes to most of them. He turns down an average of a dozen rich offers a year from Broadway and TV nowadays to go on working for the New York Ballet-where he takes no salary. He is satisfied with his income from the royalties (some $200 a week during a season) and occasional fees for outside commissions...
Winner Coty is unknown outside France, little known in France except to his parliamentary colleagues and an enigma to everyone for his views-whatever they are -on the liveliest topic of all, EDC. He is not a nonentity; he is, in fact, a case study in the solid bourgeois qualities that many Frenchmen want in their President. He may, just possibly, do very well in the job. Born of solid Norman stock (he is no kin to the late Perfumer François Coty, who was really a Corsican named Spoturno), René Coty hung out his shingle...