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...society, on a nation-wide level. In Boston itself, residents of the Beacon Hill area will refuse to support the City's ailing urban renewal program. A spokesman will say, "We don't even know those people." The Cambridge police will break into the Lampoon building after receiving a cryptic message about a hostage. They will discover someone called April Olrich. A Lampoon spokesman will say, "It's the funniest thing we've done in years. Lots of fun. Lots...
...century. All Russia seems wrapped in a dream, like a mountain village in the instant before the avalanche. While, outside, the wind is rising, at home Rissia is borne along on the immemorial patterns of Jewish tradition in which there is a complex law for every occasion and a cryptic Talmudic proverb for every problem...
...read your cryptic but perceptive Oct. 28 review of Monica Baldwin's The Called and the Chosen. I would like to express a few deep-rooted convictions on these notorious "ex-nuns" and "ex-priests" who, through some psychological guilt complex, delight in tearing to shreds the consecrated cloisters and convents they had no right to enter in the first place. As an ex-nun, I am thoroughly aware that anyone can make a mistake about his or her vocation in life. But why, in Heaven's name, do so many feel impelled to take up a poisoned...
Zurich's broad, winding streets were plastered last week with cryptic blue and white signs-a Swiss artist's stylized version of the Greek letter psi. The ψA sign had been adopted by the city as an emblem to guide 2,000 visiting psychiatrists from 58 nations to their scattered meeting places. Occasion: the Second International Congress for Psychiatry (the first was held in Paris in 1945). Since the theme was "the present status of our knowledge about the group of schizophrenias," Zurich was an appropriate meeting place, for it was here that the late Psychiatrist Paul...
...near-bloodless fight against the French and the ruling dynasty, Bourguiba said that French troops in Tunisia were "embarrassing" to him and "endangering the public order, acting as if they were at war with us or with the Algerian refugees in Tunisia." Although his answers in French were often cryptic in translation (by his 34-year-old son), his delivery was spirited, his hands always expressive. "Was he aiding the Algerians?" "Yes," said Bourguiba, his steely eyes flashing, "I help them . . . They are proving that they mean what they say when they say they prefer to be exterminated rather than...