Word: cryptically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
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...
...like Winthrop Junior Common Room, HRDC's The Cocktail Party should be seen first and considered later. Party because actually seeing the floor-level set past twelve rows of upper-class attendees requires great skill and cunning and partly because the play is riddled with T.S. Eliot's innocuously cryptic language, no distinct message leaps forth from the play. Rather, various lines worm their way into the audience, reappearing days later as pertinent homilies for the daily personal lives of audience members...
...command, Suharto has become a master of concentrating all power in his hands by keeping his opponents off balance. He has long manipulated appointments in the military and the government so that no challenger to his power could ever emerge. But if Indonesians have come to expect his cryptic utterances, Suharto's inscrutable manner has unnerved international lenders trying to hammer out concrete programs to restructure the country's banking system and reschedule corporate debt. "What is this man about?" asked a Western banker in Jakarta. "Anytime you think you have a solution, he reshuffles the cards, and you have...
...Sarah has taken a teaching position, after having kept in touch with Terry for a fair amount of time. However, she can't keep from wondering what has happened to Veronica and Robert in the interim, particularly why the latter's isolated attempts to contact her had been so cryptic...