Word: crypticness
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...Hotspur," reads one note, "said we should have had the battle, but for those cursed stars. Hotspur said he was indignant to be killed by such a person as Prince Henry, who was so much his inferior." Still more cryptic is what Blake called in his sketchbook a "Spiritual Communication." Possibly Blake intended it to be a recording of a conversation he had with the ghost of a flea (he sketched several of these: they look rather like Jiminy Cricket). The "communication" reads: "Can you think I can endure to be considered as a vapour arising from your food...
...arrests? Well, said Garrison, there was a lot of "work on details of evidence" that had yet to be done before he could be sure of obtaining convictions. Arrests might take place, he predicted, in a few months or in 30 years. "I don't mean to be cryptic," he said cryptically, "but that is the way it is." Besides that, arrests of some of the conspirators might cause the others to commit suicide, and how could he arrest a dead...
Most U.S. school systems until recently had a blunt but simple way to deal with the girl who became pregnant: she was kicked out, sometimes with a cryptic note on her record that "cyesis" or "glandular imbalance" was the cause. As the rate of illegitimate births among teen-agers continues to rise despite the easy availability of contraceptives, school officials are coming to realize that dismissal from class is neither a humane nor a sensible solution to the problems of pregnant girls. More and more urban school systems are setting up educational centers where the girls can keep up their...
...last week, in the cryptic jargon of commodity dealers, began the world's first public trading in mercury futures -contracts calling for delivery in a future month of the slippery metal known to mystified ancients, beloved of medieval alchemists, prized by modern industry for everything from thermometers to detonating caps. By his call of 90, Coyne had offered to pay $490 per flask for ten flasks of mercury* to be delivered the month after next. Marcus grabbed at the bid because the price surprised him. "We thought it would open at $480 to $485," he explained...
Having seen several recent productions of Georg Buechner's cryptic drama Woyzeck, I still cannot understand the fascination it holds for young directors. Buechner died at 23 in 1837. He left behind, among other writings, a jumbled, partly illegible manuscript of an unfinished play based on the real-life case of Johann Christian Woyzeck, an army barber executed in 1824 for the murder of his mistress. The order of scenes in this manuscript is indeterminate; some scenes are mere fragments. The ending of the play is unclear. The dialogue in both the German original and most translations borders on psychotic...