Word: crypticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cryptic Mission. At the same time the President received a steady flow of information from emissaries abroad. David Bruce, chief U.S. negotiator in Paris, kept him up to date on the peace talks. Henry Kissinger reported back from meetings in South Viet Nam, Thailand, India and Pakistan, and was scheduled to go to Paris at week's end. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird spent the week in Japan, where he stressed the fact that his hosts must assume a greater share of the defense burden in the Pacific once the U.S. withdraws from Viet Nam. This week he goes...
...fucking war for it, and now we're back to tell you you're wrong." In so doing, they have talked back to the Middle American mentality as peacen??ks and students never could. They have taken the movement's cause into a new kind of reality, perhaps a cryptic reality of the grotesque...
...sinister men armed with rifles and long Turkish knives. Were those the Russian and North Korean flags over their heads? They most certainly were. This unabashedly patriotic comic, the handiwork of a wealthy, middle-aged illustrator named José G. Cruz, spins out in cartoons, photographs and cryptic dialogue what many Mexicans are talking about these days: the arrest of 20 young Mexican revolutionaries who traveled to North Korea for guerrilla training and returned home to cause the severest strain in Mexican-Soviet relations since Leon Trotsky sought asylum in Mexico...
...effective imagery," somewhat like that of a happening or "chance" music. "Reading the collected output," she muses dryly, "one gets the impression that the computer is obsessed with earthworms and caterpillars and that it has a penchant for making gratuitous references to locomotives and Vaseline." Sometimes it rose to cryptic selfcriticism. "The roses are vomiting," it pecked. "Enough...
...surprisingly for the month of June, the 14 days elapsed before six student members could be scared up and the eight present faculty members quietly took their seats and constituted the Committee. Actually, several students had already been elected by various cryptic procedures, but due to a technicality-they had not yet been "appointed" by their deans-the Committee did not seat them in June, nor in fact early this year...