Word: crypticness
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...Cryptic Brevity. A native Kentuckian (born in a town called Hurricane), Tom Wallace joined the Times, at no pay, in 1900. He was 31 when Watterson made him the youngest member of the Courier-Journal editorial-page crew. Thirteen years later, when Marse Henry quit in a huff (because Owner Robert Worth Bingham came out for the League of Nations), Wallace switched to the Times as chief editorial writer. He has been there ever since, driving at dawn from his 150-acre dairy farm to fire his pungent editorial missiles through the composing room tubes...
...made a rule," he says, "that no editorial should be longer than a lead pencil." His brevity sometimes results in editorials so cryptic that readers dub it the "daily puzzle page." Once a politician, after reading a Wallace editorial about himself, asked a staffer: "Is he for me or against me?" The reporter couldn...
...practically the entire body of offerings open to undergraduates is given a paragraph or two of descriptions, not just a title, number, and meeting hour. These notes vary in length and in quality: some are clear and helpful prospectuses of things to come; others are still little more than cryptic titles. But every lecturer had the opportunity to say whatever he wished to about his course, and all but a few have contributed something informative. Unfortunately, five departments seem to have felt that mere names and numbers were enough for their courses. But these are chiefly such fields as Fine...
...until the 1760s that the situation began to get out of control, thereby necessitating the Corporation's severe pronouncement of 1762. Productions such as Addison's "Cato" took place in 1758, but care was taken that the drama did not exceed the limits of propriety. In 1765, a cryptic diary notation reads "Scholars punished at College for acting over the great and last day in a very shocking manner, personating the Devil...
WCOP, "1150 on your radio dial," arrived in Harvard Square yesterday armed with a station-wagon, two stooges, a mike, and a wire recorder. They had come speaking the answer to this cryptic query: "If the Communists should gain control of France and Italy, do you think the United States should go on with its aid to these countries...