Word: enigmas
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...many in his class consider him to be one of the most well-dressed, popular, and talked about people at school. But if you ask Nicholas T. Brown ’08 what he thinks of all this, he considers himself to be somewhat of an “enigma.” “I was with Natasha Alford,” Brown says, “who is just an incredible person and superstar at Harvard, and she said, ‘I’m really anxious to see what they might write about you. Even...
...between memories of happiness and the inevitable heartbreak that followed? Yeah, that’s probably what she wants us to believe. But on second thought, could we be seeing the contrast between the light-hearted, innocent Jordin and the devilish young woman hidden inside? The video boasts another enigma: just who is this boy? He’s first seen alone, seductive and alluring, and soon reappears on the boardwalk, trailing behind Sparks. Our mystery man then proceeds to follow her onto the carousel. Ah, young love at the pinnacle of cliché. Indeed, the moments at which Jordin...
...world." His book is ostensibly just a survey of research and case histories of patients whose inner lives have been fundamentally changed by music. Yet in revealing the exquisite complexity of the ways in which our minds are attuned to music, Sacks sharpens our desire to understand its enigma...
...Blanchett does: by convincingly balancing all the elements that make Elizabeth a queen—her intelligence, courage, and independence—with those that make her a woman like any other—her surprising vulnerability, passion, and self-doubt. This combination makes Elizabeth a formidable, but credible, enigma, and gives the film’s web of history, romance, and action a sense of direction and unity...
...guess explaining the enigma of Judaism to a 21-year-old who knows nothing about it (other than knee-jerk Holocaust invocations) is sort of like teaching a new language to a 40-year-old. You have to be indoctrinated while you’re young...