Word: enigmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their lavish specials that brightened prime time with an impressive range of entertainment. On NBC, Jack Paar and a Funny Thing Happened Everywhere turned a familiar TV art form into an hour of belly laughs -a collection of filmed bloopers and candid idiocies. Paar himself was the same old enigma. He made few new friends with his enduring self-awareness ("All that applause for little ol' me, Mr. Show Business?") and his growing fondness for corny gags ("I'm here for a worthy cause-the Eskimo Anti-Defamation League. It's not true they're responsible...
...inexplicable maze, a labyrinth: "I have only my perplexities to offer you. I am nearing seventy, I have given the major part of my life to literature, and I can only offer you--doubts." He values the innumerable philosophies that he knows, not as solutions to the enigma--for it is not solvable--but as esthetically enjoyable constructs...
Scientists can now turn their attention to solving another radiation-belt enigma: although one out of 20 particles in the solar wind is a positively charged helium nucleus, or alpha particle, only three can be found for every 10,000 particles in the outer belt. "For some reason," says Van Allen, "the process that pulls electrons and protons into the magnetic field seems to discriminate against alpha particles. We hope to find...
...Chain of Enigma. In flight from Nazi Germany, she went to Sweden in 1940 through the combined efforts of a member of the Swedish royal family and famed Novelist Selma Lagerlöf, herself a Nobel winner. At 48, the refugee brought with her only an aged mother and the numbness induced by terror. Physically, she was so small that she was at first billeted in a children's home. The daughter of an inventor and industrialist, she had written some poems that were totally commonplace and mostly unpublished. Now, galvanized by the experience of her people, she began...
...biggest imponderable-apart from the enigma of Wallace-is the extent to which Southern voting patterns will be affected by the region's fast-changing social, economic and political structure. In both parties there have been some encouraging signs of moderation and modernization, but the turmoil that Wallace is capable of fomenting could destroy this progress. The self-described "spoiler" could also delay the Southern Negro's entry into mainstream politics. By 1968, Negro voter registration in the eleven states of the old Confederacy may exceed 3,250,000, more than double the 1960 figure. Though the actual...