Word: enigma
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...presentation of financial information to this University community confronts the enigma that it is impossible to provide each person with the amount of detail each desires. Some would like a great deal more information than made available today and others have little interest in financial numbers. I should accordingly welcome-beyond questions or comments at this meeting-any written reactions and suggestions...
Stanley Bond is, to say the least, an enigma. An ex-convxict attending college for the first time, at least five years older than his contemporaries, short hair ... it takes a while to adjust. He started at Brandeis in February with, among other things, a course in French existentialism. He was a man who wrote Ivric poetry and tried to keep one hand into everything. What would you be like, if you were attending college for the first time...
Koshland's theory seems to provide the answer to the enigma. The reason that enzymes are so effective, he suggests, is that they hold a molecule's constituent atoms at the proper orientation for joining. By this "orbital steering," he explains, enzymes align the outermost electrons spinning around each atom so that they can readily be shared with other atoms. Such electron sharing is at the heart of all chemical reactions...
...liberal, some kind of kook who had no business eying one of those plush, prestigious hundred seats majestically fanned out under the Capitol dome. And Brown got mad too. He lashed out at Tunney, saying that he was "acting like a poor little rich boy." And then this enigma, this seemingly phlegmatic, hard man who barely gave a damn, melted and publicly apologized. "I shouldn't have said it," moaned Brown...
...write all day, play with my kids, have trouble sleeping, get up, write, have trouble sleeping, and go on like that for three months to get a draft. I can't be concerned with a form; I can only be concerned with an issue. When you create the total enigma, you will then be the ultimate hero. You will have created a play which no one can understand completely at any given moment. Therefore it's totally brilliant. Within my work lies the possibility that everything I do is irrelevant except to me because it's what I do best...