Word: clue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lawrence and his cheap theatricality, his godlike arrogance and his gibbering self-doubt; his headlong courage, girlish psychasthenia, Celtic wit, humorless egotism, compulsive chastity, sensuous pleasure in pain. But there is something he does not catch, and that something is an answer to the fundamental enigma of Lawrence, a clue to the essential nature of the beast, a glimpse of the secret spring that made him tick...
Willard Wirtz, who fortnight ago spent a day in Manhattan vainly trying to bring both sides together, visited town again-but principally to clue himself on an incipient New York maritime strike. Going into its third week, Manhattan's newspaper strike was no nearer settlement than when it began...
...this seems a bit topsy-turvy, and that might give us a clue to the real cause of the difficulty. It seems clear that in deciding on matters such as the one at hand, the Committee on Educational Policy is way out of its depth. The only Harvard group qualified to rule on the Cum Laude degree is, of course, the Gilbert and Sullivan society. David Monroe Miller A.B., Cum Laude, Harvard...
Henry Anatole Grunwald's anthology says on Salinger is therefore interesting not so much as a key to the Truth about J. D. S. but as a clue to how susceptible Salinger's work is to modern criticism. We may be tolerant of the editor's apparent commitment to the Hundred Monkeys school of anthologizing (if a hundred monkeys with a hundred typewriters typed for...), not because of the essays are by important people but because the diversity is the key to the Salinger industry...
...Chip" Bohlen, about to leave for Paris as U.S. ambassador there, supplied a significant clue. Talking to Kennedy, he recalled a Lenin adage that Khrushchev is fond of quoting: If a man sticks out a bayonet and strikes mush, he keeps on pushing. But when he hits cold steel, he pulls back...