Word: crypticness
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...died in the crash, and for the airline, but for the pilot himself, who, along with his unaware passengers, was victim of that mystical, unquestioning, almost religious awe and veneration in which our culture has trained us to hold gadgets-any gadget, if it is only complex enough and cryptic enough and costs enough...
Today, 82 and frail. Kobayashi rarely leaves his villa near Takarazuka. except for a monthly visit to his theater. Next day he sends cryptic memos to the directors. He still manages to keep his musical empire humming, brings eminent Western concert stars to the town (e.g., Singers Marian Anderson and Helen Traubel, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin). Early this year, he will repossess Takarazuka's Tokyo branch, which the occupation forces had turned into the famed Ernie Pyle movie theater. Last week the old showman ventured forth to take in a special show with a Christmas finale. Sample lyric...
...almost certain triumph of Massachusetts Democratic senatorial candidate Foster Furcolo led him to say that "I will support him, although without any great enthusiasm." Schlesinger's only comment on Furcolo's apparent success was a cryptic "regret...
...Need Sense. The one and only way to beat the game, says the professor, is to learn how to decipher the fine type in the form charts. From these cryptic figures the patient handicapper may judge a thoroughbred's breeding, consistency and condition, its ability to carry the assigned weight, the skill of the jockey and the ability of the trainer. Then he must learn how to check his judgment in the paddock. Does his horse look nervous? anxious to run? Matheson, says Matheson, can teach the student how to tell...
...every morning like a band of peering overweight crows to collect data which may or may not tell something about how a given horse will do in a race. Hugging the rail, the horses that were really "working" (i.e., going all-out) drummed by, and the dockers shouted out cryptic fractions...