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Summary of Sages. Such careful elaboration is necessary because the Talmud is an impenetrable thicket to anyone who has not spent years mastering its peculiar logic and organization. In essence, it is a baffling, cryptic summary of 800 years of dialogue among Jewish rabbis, debating and interpreting the meaning of God's word...
...Strangelove and Fail Safe, his drama is sharpest in its seriocomic side-glances at counterespionage aboard ship. The best scene takes place in sick bay, where diagnosticians earnestly analyze a specimen of floating garbage to see if they can detect Red cabbage, a staple of Soviet submarines. In another cryptic comment on cold war manners, a Russian surface vessel passes to port, simultaneously dipping its colors and dumping refuse over the side. Such cogency is missing from the standard high-megaton finale. Obviously made without the full cooperation of any specific navy, Incident emerges at last as its own worst...
...started the scan platform searching with a wide-angle sensor for light from Mars, and turned on the tape recorder's power. Everything was going unbelievably well. Newsmen and families of the scientists gathered in JPL's Von Kármán Auditorium to await the cryptic reports from the primary tracking stations at Johannesburg in South Africa, Woomera in Australia and Goldstone in California...
...Your cryptic resume of the new Eucharistic theology [July 2] is a parody of contemporary and traditional Catholic belief. Consecration is not "miraculous" but the ordinary way God makes his presence and sacrifice effective today. "Sign" has always been used in Catholic theology, and "substance and accidents" has never hindered belief that the active, living God is present in the Eucharist...
...this wittily ironic memoir, Lenard blithely confesses that all the rumors are true. Unlike most memoirists, he is crisply cryptic about his own improbable early life. But with delight and charm, he descants on life in his adopted home in Southern Brazil. If he seems to resemble Albert Schweitzer as an intellectual refugee buried in a jungle, the resemblance is superficial: Schweitzer is devout and ascetic, Lenard is an agnostic and a humanist; Schweitzer is a crusader, Lenard works...