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...finely fashioned drills for hollowing out rings and cuff links and making them into message holders, a book on cryptoanalysis, maps of Chicago and Washington and upper New York State, radio tubes, high-speed film, a Hallicrafters radio (capable of receiving messages from Russia), and a variety of cryptic messages written in Russian and English. The most intriguing, possibly a code for an art-gallery rendezvous: "Is this an interesting picture? Yes. Do you want me to see it, Mr. Brandt? Smokes pipe and has red book in left hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Artist in Brooklyn | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...also that the few he possesses have already paid their bills (which they do annually) to his predecessor. By a series of "free" consultations and by engaging the support of influential citizens, however, Knock buffaloes the rural characters with a bewildering description of their maladies. No one escapes the cryptic medical language and anatomical charts which the doctor employs to convince the strapping citizens of their multiple ills...

Author: By Anna C. Hunt, | Title: Doctor Knock | 7/18/1957 | See Source »

Although the plot is not so cryptic as a summary might indicate, Ashton has collected a menage of rather dissonant symbols and attempted to bring them together in a harmonious structure that only partly succeeds. Ashton must be seen in reaction to 19th century "realism," in whose place he would substitute a reconciliation of the Romantic with the Epic. He attempts to involve the audience emotionally (Romantically) and then to shock them intellectually (Epically...

Author: By Petronius Arbiter, | Title: Chrysalis' Opens at Tufts | 7/11/1957 | See Source »

...election year, and the Class of '32 soon became embroiled in the not-too-enthusiastic politicking for a soft-spoken Quaker from California or a sidewalks-of-New-York-spoken Catholic from the Bowery. There were other suggestions offered; a senior from Hollis under the cryptic cognomen of "Number Ten" announced the formation of a King George-for-President Party, one of whose platform planks was to exchange Memorial Hall for the Houses of Parliament. The gargoyles growled...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Class of '32: First Two Years | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Grades at Bennington are kept only for graduate school references, without even the cryptic sort of communication to students Reed may employ. Written reports and weekly meetings with a counselor tell students of their progress...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The Grading System: Its Defects Are Many | 3/12/1957 | See Source »

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