Word: crypticness
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...smiles on our faces don't represent happiness or joy during the Advent season. This Christmas marks our sixth without Donald J. Rander, a prisoner of war in South Viet Nam. May you and your family have a happy holiday season. Andrea, Lysa and Page Rander." Too cryptic for comfort, perhaps, but as Mrs. Rander notes: "I wasn't trying to be sarcastic. I just wanted to get the point across." She also remarks that she voted for Nixon this year, though other blacks tried to talk her out of it. She clings precariously to her belief that...
Wilson yesterday termed the Saturday announcement "cryptic," adding that it leaves many questions unanswered. "Rather than guessing how long Henry intends to stay in the Administration, I will find out for myself," Wilson said...
Science, unfortunately, becomes equated with obscurantism, empiricism equated with quantification-with the result that the more cryptic a person is, the more scientific he appears to be. Given that these are economically troubled times, even for "hard" scientists, I have some pragmatic advice for the nation's unemployed physicists, mathematicians and engineers...
...Institute has just been set up in Washington, D.C. It will be headed by Dr. Glenn A. Olds, president of Kent State University, with an advisory council including such notables as Polio Fighter Jonas E. Salk, and former U.N. Secretary-General U Thant. As for his latest solutions, the cryptic creator of the geodesic dome called for a new "world accounting system," democracy by "continual electronic referendum," and an "educational revolution" in which each child would program his own computer to answer such questions as "Why is the sky blue...
...most dramatic prophecies are made by individual psychics who claim the ability to foresee the future. The 16th century physician and astrologer Nostradamus is perhaps the most famous of all time. Nostradamus knew the trick: his writings were cryptic, and interpreters can read any number of different predictions into a single passage. Modern seers like Jeane Dixon are also generally vague, and they bolster their visions by keeping an observant eye on human nature and events. Sybil Leek, for instance, predicted the likelihood of an assassination attempt on Presidential Candidate George Wallace?but many thoughtful and apprehensive laymen could have...