Word: coded
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Although he proposes a variety of extremely plausible theories, Ash aptly summarizes his personal explanation in three words--"Gorbachev, Helsinki and Tocqueville." The combination of Soviet liberalization, a internationally respected code of human rights and the lack of a coherent right to rule, he explains, set the stage for revolutions from both above and below...
...fashioned way. They memorize names and shapes, and draw over and over the outlines of countries and land masses (the northern edge of the Soviet Union is particularly nettlesome) until they get them right. Creative use of mnemonics helps. "Beware of hot gorillas eating nitrates casually, pop" is code for the Central American countries of Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Smith leavens the work load with games like geography baseball, in which a home-run problem might be: name the 15 Soviet republics. Later in the year, it would become: name each of their capitals...
Another stout retainer whose position has become increasingly important is Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Fred L. Glimp '50. It's no accident that the administrator who deals with alumni is the same one who's in charge of development (a higher-education code word for fundraising). For, as Harvard graduates soon learn, their financial obligation to their alma mater doesn't end as soon as they've paid off the last penny of interest on that $80,000. They are expected to keep the cash flowing for the rest of their long and (by the grace...
...worth speaking to. Robert Byron, the great traveler of the '30s who wrote so feelingly on Islamic culture, got great comic effect by treating every alien he met -- even an American -- as an unintelligible buffoon; and his John Bullish contemporary Evelyn Waugh all but enunciated a Blimp's Code by asserting that no man who knew more than one language could express himself memorably in any. (Take that, Nabokov! Et tu, Samuel Beckett...
...interview with the Jerusalem Post, Shamir seemed to lay down a new condition for negotiations to arrange those elections. Said he: "There is nothing to discuss with those among the Palestinian Arabs who are opposed to autonomy." In Israel that is a code word for strictly limited self- government; the remark thus implied that Israel will talk only with Palestinians who abandon the idea of an eventual independent state. Any such condition would make it quite certain that no Palestinians would come to the bargaining table...