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...definitely at an intellectual center of the planet, renowned since 1636. It is important to know its history and to view yourselves as one more of an endless line of marching men and women who are marked by the singular characteristic of an intense capacity to explore that great enigma, Verities. You are surrounded by positive symbols of gigantic intellectual and moral accomplishment. The challenge to the mind and will is to immerse yourself in, and identify boldly with, the positive aspects of those symbols. Never let the ever-present negatives of this world define your relationship to Harvard. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Alumni Weekend | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

...likeliest of all solutions to this great mystery is that the Action Man is an everyday, anonymous Cambridge resident, incredibly lonely, but basically inconspicuous. It is this enigma of identity which makes the Action Man such a legend in his own time. In fact, to identify and confront the Action Man would constitute the destruction of a time-honored myth, like Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness monster. A captured Bigfoot is just another mammal; a captured Nessie is just another reptile; an exposed Action Man would be simply just another pervert...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Giving Good Phone | 4/2/1985 | See Source »

Ultimately, no one really knows what factors come into play when the succession is decided. The process is still an enigma, enveloped in nearly 70 years of Bolshevik devotion to intrigue and secrecy. As far as experts can tell, a tiny handful of powerful Politburo members, perhaps as few as five or six, and usually only those based in Moscow, normally control the process. Says a Kremlinologist at the U.S. State Department: "There are no votes taken. They palaver until the consensus is reached." In the final hours of the decision, the military and the KGB may become more influential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union the Succession Problem | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Despite the visibility of his office, Bok remains an enigma in the eyes of most students at Harvard. They see him during Freshman Week, at basketball games. We invited him to a wine and cheese party in a dormitory room--and he came...

Author: By Andrew S. Doctoroff, | Title: Beyond the Mass Hall Mystique | 1/10/1985 | See Source »

...organ and brass apostrophe in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Strauss's blazing essay in orchestrational virtuosity ranked high in audiences' esteem. Maazel and the Viennese give this mettle tester a commanding reading, capturing the grandeur of its arresting introduction, the suavity of its incongruous waltz and the enigma of its bitonal ending. The rarely encountered, frankly Wagnerian tone poem Macbeth, Strauss's first attempt in the genre, makes an appealing, generous bonus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Obscure Bits and Greatest Hits | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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