Word: enigma
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Indeed, though the man is an enigma wrapped in mystery wrapped in a tortilla, the work is beautifully lucid. Castaneda's story unfolds with a narrative power unmatched in other anthropological studies. Its terrain?studded with organ-pipe cacti, from the glittering lava massifs of the Mexican desert to the ramshackle interior of Don Juan's shack?becomes perfectly real. In detail, it is as thoroughly articulated a world as, say, Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. In all the books, but especially in Journey to Ixtlan, Castaneda makes the reader experience the pressure of mysterious winds and the shiver of leaves...
...most of the problems stem from China itself. She wastes few words reducing the rhetoric to human terms, stripping away the publicity releases to reveal the Chinese people. But at this point, she encounters the same obstacles that limit other China-watchers. The enigma of China does not lie in the Marxism-Leninism--western innovations--but in the Chinese themselves, across the cultural...
...absolute requisite." He still holds to his old credo that "conformity breeds mediocrity." And although he does not ride a motorcycle much any more, he remains a restless loner, a middle-aged delinquent of the film industry. If he had a theme song, it would be Elgar's Enigma Variations...
...incorporating touches of Wagner, was Shostakovich perhaps giving artistic voice to the new spirit of friendship between the Russian and German peoples? So it went. It seemed that the new symphony, already recorded by Ormandy for RCA, might almost become as popular for guessing games as Elgar's Enigma Variations...
After that, it seemed as if nothing else could happen to the U.S. team short of its premier runner falling down in the middle of a crucial race. That is just what he did. Jim Ryun, 25, the Kansas enigma who overcame psychological problems in his comeback in the 1,500-meter run, opened his qualifying heat by taking his accustomed spot at the rear of the pack. With 500 meters to go, Ryun began to make his move. His target: Kenya's Kipchoge Keino, who had defeated Ryun in the heady Mexico City air. Ryun only needed...