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...Chicago-born son of an Armour meat-packing executive whose business travels took his family throughout South America, Reed has spent 22 years with Citicorp. But in many ways he remains an enigma, variously described by some of his fellow workers as icy and grim and by others as sensitive and humorous. One acquaintance says he has a "passion for detail and no time for mavericks" and that he maintains a studied aloofness with underlings. Associates consider Reed to be direct and serious, possibly to a fault. Says Investment Banker William Donaldson, a fellow outside director of Philip Morris...
...course, there is the enigma of Richard Somers. Although he is an unlikeable, pompous snob, his inner conflicts are potentially compelling. He is intensely torn between Kangaroo and the Reds between power and the ideals he fought for in England. But the audience cannot become involved because the conflict is not believable...
...MANY PEOPLE, CLASSICAL MUSIC is an enigma, a vast world of high-sounding ideals and mystifying terminology. Because it is perceived as a bastion of snobbery and because it is complicated, classical music has a limited audience. As the works of many contemporary composers are inaccessible, and since orchestras incessantly perform the same repertoire, classical music has in recent decades stagnated into glorifying the past...
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Unfortunately, The Enigma of Arrival, Naipaul's new autobiographical novel, suffers from a surfeit of description and fantasy, leaving one bored instead of touched by its detailed portrait of the English countryside in decay...