Word: crypticness
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...have indeed come from inside Cuba. But most of them probably originated no farther distant than "Little Havana" in southwestern Miami. Using code names such as "Tiger," "Corsair," and "Alpha Five," they beamed a 24-hour torrent of chatter, reading off metronome-like numbers in Spanish and repeating cryptic messages: "Caesar is approaching the Colosseum," "The little tree is in the middle of the pasture." More than once, Castro stations broke in angrily. Cried one Castroite at the microphone: "You have no guts to come here, son of a whore! You only know how to kill children. Effeminates! Tell...
...Christianity. Like Becket in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral the priest uses paternal, beatific language; but Christ, salvation, and sin are carefully left out. Golding merely gives Jocelin the symptoms of faith, and leaves it to the reader to conjure up some kind of psychological reality from such cryptic sommentary as "Joy, fire, joy." Furthermore the artificial machinery of the allegory--the lack of foundations, the skinny pillars--imposes an arbitrary and implausible burden on Father Jocelin's psyche...
...Spears has placed at the end of each section: they tell more about Auden than many of the chapters do. They indicate, for example, whom he travelled with, what he read, where he went, and whom he wrote to. The chronologies of Auden's life are equally intriguing: One cryptic note on page 76 reads "Earlier in the year Auden had married Erika Mann, whom he had never met, in order to provide her with a passport." That is the last we hear of Erika...
LEONARD BASKIN-Borgenicht, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. Nine new enigmas in bronze and wood from Smith College's bearded sculpture prof. Huge hulking owls, masks of poets and inscrutable birdmen make a cryptic metaphor of death and immortality. Through...
...savvy Brazilians saw at a glance, it was the perfectly normal way of saying that President Joao Goulart's Brazilian Labor Party demanded a parliamentary investigation into the actions of Governor Carlos Lacerda of Guanabara state. In their casual conversations, Brazilians can be just as cryptic, leaving the befuddled stranger convinced that, letter for letter, Brazil is the world's most overalphabetized nation...