Word: enigma
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...Eternal Enigma...
...Schrade, the idea of the fated personal daemon helps clarify "the eternal enigma of the extraordinary man." The visionary gift of the creative artist originates in his acceptance (albeit unconsciously) of this force for which he expends his energies to the limit of his nature. This drive is common to an artist's creativity and work and a stateman's wickedness alike, to both Beethoven and Napoleon; it features an enormous confidence and a wisdom far beyond common...
...candid Harry Albert Batten, 65. Born four blocks from Ayer's 13-story headquarters on West Washington Square, Batten (no kin to B.B.D. & O.'s Co-Founder George Batten) still lives only eleven blocks from the office and walks to work each morning. His agency, an envied enigma in the industry, shuns the spectacular for quiet craftsmanship, e.g., its 23-year-old "A diamond is forever" campaign for De Beers, and selects its clients with as much care as a Main Liner making a suitable marriage. "When we sign up a client," says Batten, "we expect to have...
Just as there can be no correct answer which will leave the total experience unmarried for A and X, so too, Last Year at Marienbad will suffer no explanation without suffering destruction. It creates an artificial world of enigma, a closed world that could exist in no form other than the fluid, puzzling...
...Shed Boston Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Pierre Monteux - W agner: Meistersinger Overture - Elgar: Enigma Variations - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Fleisher...