Word: crypticness
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...bigger his world. By this standard, France's Saint-John Perse was a giant from the beginning, for he wrote of the oceans, the deserts, the globe, and of a timeless Man. His form was neither verse nor prose, and to many the vivid imagery was enigmatic, possibly cryptic, as in Seamarks...
...questions: "I don't remember the book too well-any jive going on? Is there some jungle [i.e., conflict]? There's gotta be some sweetness and fruit." With the plot straight in his mind, the Duke sat down and dashed off a four-part suite with typically cryptic subtitles: Miss Fits Blues, Schwiphti, Zweet Zurzday, Lay-By. "That last," explained the Duke, "is an emergency parking area by the roadside of England. See how it all fits...
...values of human dignity, truth and justice under law are finally secured for all men everywhere on earth" - a more elaborate statement of President Eisenhower's "peace with justice." As aids to the cause of peace, the platform proposes more foreign economic aid, expanded world trade (with a cryptic promise of "international agreements to assure . . . fair labor standards to protect our own workers"), liberalized immigration policies, "more sensitive" overseas information programs, and a "national peace agency for disarmament planning and research." Until peace is secured, the Democratic Party promises "forces and weapons of a diversity, balance and mobility sufficient...
...again that a proper adventure story translates the reader instantly from a world that is merely actual-represented by thinning hair and thickening wife-to one that is gloriously real. This putative planet, circumnavigated by Author Jenkins' sea thriller, is the realm of the dead mariner's cryptic map, the deathbed revelation cut off in mid-gargle, the implacable enemy, and the beautiful girl scientist who carries on the quest that killed her father. The story's hero has the sort of face that is weathered by wind, war, and lately by the floodlights of cigarette...
...liked it until Kerouac got the 'smart jacks'-what I send my child to bed for doing." But Producers Frank and Leslie, now busily showing the film to distributors, are confident that it will soon thumb a ride with a glossy, full-length Hollywood feature, carry its cryptic message of the Beats to the neighborhood theater-and even the village squares...