Word: cryptic
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...express ourselves by occasionally wearing a cryptic T-shirt or taking sideways glance as we're walking to Loker Commons...
...campers' names on the first day, but I have yet to understand the realities of their daily lives, the feeling they have when I take them home and the attitudes which they display about their time in camp. I am paying attention. I am struggling to interpret our cryptic conversations about race and difference. I am trying to remember what my life felt like in third grade. And I am reminded, each day, that my awareness of their backgrounds is pitifully incomplete...
...social critic Derrick Bell writes in his book Gospel Choirs, one of black music's earliest functions was to get people through hard times. During slavery, spirituals would sometimes be encoded with secret messages, directions on how to get North to freedom. Franklin's cryptic hurt serves a similar function; it draws us in, it commands empathy, and it ultimately points us north. Listen to her voice on the prayerful Wholy Holy, spiraling away, taking us away. North out of heartbreak, north out of oppression, north toward where we want...
...usually off as well. Early in the century, when young talent such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Henri Matisse, Gertrude Stein and Gene Kelly flocked to Paris, making it the world capital of artistic ferment, Glimp set up his atelier in Helsinki. "The rent's cheap" was his cryptic explanation to friends and admirers who for years vainly urged him to relocate. By the time he did, Paris turned out to be occupied by the Nazis and all the cafes had switched from vin rouge to beer and spaetzle, which Glimp despised...
Aaron Landry '99-'00 said part of his gaming enjoyment stems from the "power trip" of seeing himself as "cryptic and distantly ingenious" when he designs and oversees the fantasy worlds of a given game. In contrast, he said everyday life is a let-down...