Word: cipheritis
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...along Manhattan's art-vending 57th Street last week, abstraction reared its cipher head. Most of its exhibiting practitioners were under 50, but none of them happened to be children, no matter what their work seemed to indicate. Among the standouts...
...same kind of courage was shown six months later when Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk, fled from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with evidence of a Communist spy ring in Canada. Prime Minister King, who was trying to stay neutral in the cold war, dreaded the Russians' reaction to a spy scandal. St. Laurent, who had refused to listen to Gouzenko when he first came to his office with the spy data, saw it differently. He ordered 14 suspects locked up and held incommunicado while a secretly appointed Royal Commission dug up the facts. St. Laurent's political opponents...
...these organizations, the danger exists that man, though the society at large may be democratic, will become a voiceless cipher. As Erwin Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, put it, 20th Century man faces in his organizations "an internal kind of totalitarianism...
Intellectuals are apt to consider themselves somewhat more intelligent and sensitive than most people, and in Poe's case, the root of the trouble seems to have been that he was. He grandly offered to solve any cipher that his readers sent him. People sent him dishonest ciphers-i.e., those which a correspondent could not have readily deciphered even with the key. Poe solved them anyway. His critical essays, that seemed so ill-tempered to his contemporaries, now seem merely honest and forthright. In general, posterity has agreed with...
...Britain's Frank Roberts arrived in Moscow, mum was the word. It was even mummer after Reuters' Dallas and the Herald Tribune's Newman cabled a beat: STALIN EXPECTED RECEIVE ENVOYS TOMORROW NIGHT. Furious at the leak, the envoys swore embassy staffs, down to typists and cipher clerks, to secrecy...