Word: clues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final chapter provides an appealing clue to the sociocultural wounds that led the author to write the book. Though the subject is Jewry, Cuddihy also offers a particularly original meditation on a very old theme: the conflict between tree-swinging creative joy and the forces of social conformity...
...code machine and possibly a legible code book. They point out that code machines, Western and Russian models alike, are constructed in a manner that enables the operator to reset circuits and insert new encoding or decoding disks at random so that yesterday's code may give scant clue to today's. Even so, influential U.S. cryptologists at the time believed that an examination of the Russian equipment would increase the possibility that the U.S. might finally succeed in breaking Soviet codes, a feat that in 1968 had still defied the best efforts of the American intelligence community...
...February 24 issue for what it was: a silent collector's item. It was fat with the work of such New Yorker deities as E.B. White, S.J. Perelman, Brendan Gill, John Updike and Pauline Kael--some of them dragged from retirement for this circumspect celebration. That was a clue, of course all of those whimsical hot shots, together in one issue, meant something special was up. There were other clues: the cover was the annual portrait of Eustace Tilley, The New Yorker's elegant, top-hatted, curly-locked, nose-in-the-air, monacieclutching mascot. That told readers the magazine...
...mind). The poster earnestly assuages embarrassment and guilt, promising that "after the film is over you don't find yourself making a hasty departure while scrupulously avoiding eye contact." The great success of these ploys, along with the material opulence and glibly amoral tone of the film, is a clue to what the movie was meant to accomplish. Jaeckin's premise and perhaps the only guiding principle of the film, is that there is a large, well-heeled audience out there that loves pornography, is too fastidious to seek out the crass version in the Combat Zone, and will...
Pure Chandler. Take, for example, Spenser's reply to a smug and windy college president who wants to emphasize the "delicacy" of his predicament: "Look, I went to college once, I don't wear my hat indoors. And if a clue comes along and bites me on the ankle I grab it. I am not however an Oxford don. I am a private detective. Is there something you'd like me to detect or are you just polishing up your elocution for next year's commencement?" Pure Chandler. So is the president's riposte...