Word: enigmas
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Marienbad is not a movie in the publicly accepted sense of the word; it is an enigma, the most monstrously elaborate enigma ever conceived in terms of cinema...
...book's focus is a dim figure from history, a Spanish renegade named Guerrero, who tried to shake the Maya princes from their fatalism and organize resistance to the invaders. The enigma of Guerrero is not fully resolved at the book's end; he is a less complete character than that other Stacton enigma, the Pharaoh Ikhnaton of the brilliant On a Balcony (TIME, Sept. 6. 1959). The trouble may be that philosophical novelists are, in their weakest moments, tract-writing zealots. Stacton's message in this book is that the proper study of doomed...
Just as there can be no correct answer which will leave the total experience unmarred for A and X, so too, Last Year at Marienbad will suffer no explanation without suffering destiaction. It creates an artificial world of enigma, a closed world that could exist in no form other than the fluid, puzzling...
...regrettable that many talented, intelligent Americans such as General Creighton Abrams have made a life's study of military science rather than the political and economic alternatives to war. The professional status of our forces overseas bespeaks destructive competence, but offers no solution to the Berlin enigma. There is no plausible way to fight a "limited" war for Central Europe, and no hope that either side could win a larger, nuclear world...
...Hearst (Scribner; $7.50), Biographer William Andrew (Jim Fisk, Sickles the Incredible) Swanberg swings lustily into the latest effort to explain and understand that extraordinary man. It is an all but impossible task, and Swanberg, who even enlisted the service of a psychiatrist in his attempt to solve the Hearstian enigma, does not succeed. What he has produced is a fascinating, exhaustive and meticulously impartial study of a man whose true meaning eluded all who knew...