Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though some of it is not), but that the simplicity and straightforwardness with which it is taught, as the Reverend Peter Gomes of Memorial Church recently pointed out, "frequently are understood to be the same as stupidity and naivete" on this campus; there just hasn't been time to cloak all the basics in the accustomed layers of sophistication and obliquity. Obviously, the student at times may come out ahead in such a situation...
...While I am sickened by the conduct of those responsible for Watergate, after reading about Reporters Woodward and Bernstein [April 22], I am almost as disgusted by the cloak-and-dagger conduct of the two Washington Post reporters...
...prince, and who is eventually skewered to death by the prince's evil sisters in the Venetian equivalent to a voodoo ceremony. As the luckless, lovelorn slave, an expressive young dancer named Christopher Aponte is called upon to perform a sensuous duet with the courtesan's red cloak, leaving the unfortunate impression that he is secretly a cloth fetishist...
...people following parliamentary procedure--"which was especially important because the justification for calling the police was to preserve order." The Bust brought moderates like Epstein to accept in even larger part than they had before the radicals' criticism of what they saw as the university's false cloak of orderly neutrality--and it made them join the Strike to try to get the university, if not in active opposition to what they considered oppression, at least closer to the liberal ideals it professed...
Advertising for cloak-and-dagger men and women may sound strange, but the END, as the agency is generally called, maintains that it works. Since the search began six months ago, there have been hundreds of applicants from a variety of backgrounds. The biggest single group is young lawyers (sniff's a BND personnel officer: "Lawyers think they can do anything"). Most of the applicants were weeded out early, including one 13-year-old aspiring James Bond. This week a handful of survivors will be selected for training after final tests for IQ, language ability and extemporaneous-speaking talent...