Word: enigma
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Trade, now in the depths of Summer slack, faces a double speculation as to the Fall. Seasonal recovery is of course to be expected, but how far it will go remains an enigma. The basic soundness of economic conditions is undoubted and is creating wide optimism as to the future. But merchants and manufacturers would like to see something more than rosy prospects, and soon they will become impatient unless definitely auspicious signs develop, however faintly...
Sorge Koussewitski, the next conductor remains an enigma, and one can only expect the unexpected, it is safe to say that he will have to be a truly great conductor to keep Mr. Monteux from returning; in fact, one would not be surprised to see him here again anyway. Not few would welcome...
...possible to account for the enigma of Walt Whitman's conflicting reputations in Europe and in America in terms of the exaggerated respect which Americans hold for most things European and the concomitant deprecation of most things American. Old books, old hats, and old families are the better for a European origin. Certainly all visitors to the New World, from Columbus to Israel Zangwill, have commented with chary epigrams on this one commendable attribute of the natives. But respect is not synonymous with love; and it may be argued that too much respect and too little love for the European...
Waiving the question of whether Harvard is foodless as well as Godless, there yet remains the enigma of why Memorial Hall with good food (according to the "Visiting Committee of Ladies and the Dining Hall Committee") and the lowest rates in Cambridge should be degenerating so rapidly into "innocuous dissuetude." The Comptroller in his circular letter to undergraduates shows himself nonplussed at this state of affairs and requests suggestions and criticisms...
...spoke at length about his literary activities and deplored the fact that the best literary genius of America is gone. He knew nothing of Booth Tarkington's works and the name of Eugene O'Neill was an enigma to him. " I am a Philistine," he said. " I do not like modern things -art, music, books and what not. There is nothing in them to like...