Word: crypticisms
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...generations later, all of these opinions can still find adherents. Kafka's work is so specific on the surface, and so cryptic underneath, that it can serve any interpreter. His admirers and detractors "agree on only one point: Kafka "was the neurotic artist personified. He despised his work as an insurance clerk but would not quit. He shied from sentiment as a "fatness of feeling" and recoiled from sex: "Coitus is the punishment for the happiness of being together." He could write only about what he knew, and what he knew were his dreams. "My talent for portraying...
Perhaps because of Ride's presence, and psychologists surely will debate the question, the crew seemed more relaxed than on any earlier flight. Conversations flowed freely. There was less of the cryptic test-pilot terseness in their chatter. On Sunday, Ride and the three other space rookies aboard Challenger, all members of the 1978 class of astronauts, wore T shirts imprinted with their class initials TFNG (for Thirty-Five New Guys, even though six of the new guys happened to be women). While NASA'S doctors had yet to make a detailed examination of the biomedical data from...
...might have been a scene from a TV courtroom drama. At the Sixth World Congress of Sexology in Washington, pioneering Sex Therapists William Masters and Virginia Johnson called a press conference to defend themselves against charges that their sex research is cryptic, slipshod and so vaguely defined that other experts cannot tell how many patients have actually been cured of their sexual woes. Have the two ever revealed their criteria for successful sex therapy? asked a reporter. "Innumerable times," answered an exasperated Masters. Did he ever reveal-sotto voce in a San Francisco bar-that a woman...
Bowers also studies buckeye butterflies, a species native to California. Although buckeyes also feed on plants which contain iridoid glycosoids, unlike checkerspots they are not unpalatable. Brown, drab and cryptic, they also look very different from checkerspots which are brightly colored and tend to be gregarious...
...combine evolutionary, ecological and behavioral problems. "I'm going to start playing around this summer with a moth species that feeds on catalpa trees which contain large amounts of iridoid glycosoids," she says. The larvae of this species are gregarious and warningly colored but the adults are drab and cryptic. This type of life history suggests that the larvae are unpalatable but as they molt and become adults they are no longer unpalatable. "I don't exactly know what's going on with these guys, but I'm really psyched--it's really unusual to have a colored larva...