Word: enigma
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...have been interested in what I perceive to be the enigma of Harvard Management for some four years. I have yet to receive responsive answers to my questions. In this day of uncertainty in financial markets, I would like to think that I am not alone in wondering where goes Harvard Management...
...various levels of meaning. Understanding comes not when one is leaving the theater or even on the way home, but only through subsequent thought and analysis. "the cryptogram" fits well the description Winston Churchill once used for the Soviet Union--"a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma...
...Mother Taught Me (Random House; 568 pages; $25), Marlon Brando, aided by journalist Robert Lindsey, strikes a pose of injured innocence: he is a sweet-spirited, mischievous man- child who accidentally fell first into acting, then into fame and finally into self-contempt, and at 70 remains "an enigma to myself in a world that still bewilders me." That observation pretty well sums up the level of self- awareness (and self-revelation) he achieves in his book...
...that talks over their nuclear program will happen soon. Today's funeral for lifetime leader Kim Il Sung was the last stage of mourning necessary for the meetings to resume, Lake said, and U.S. officials expect they'll soon be dealing with his son, the big-haired enigma, Kim Jong Il.ARGENTINA . . . WAS THE BOMB BLAST REVENGE? The blowing up of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires yesterday may have been retaliation for Israel's gains against Hizballah, the Iran-backed terrorist group, according to Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. In June, Israel bombed Hizballah's training base in Lebanon...
...parts of this success story appeared more explicitly 10 years ago in Finding the Center. Naipaul called that piece of writing "Prologue to an Autobiography." The new work is an analogue to that and other earlier books. As in A Way in the World, the nameless narrator of The Enigma of Arrival might as well be called V.S. Naipaul. Raleigh and Miranda were prominent in The Loss of El Dorado; they reappear here in chapters that Naipaul says grew out of ideas for dramas...