Word: crypto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance that he will. History, in turn, has made him?the immigrant boy, the shoe salesman, the Stevensonian, civil rights-defending liberal Democrat "mugged by reality" in Editor Irving Kristol's phrase, until eventually he became the most recognizable kind of figure in modern American politics: the neoconservative, the crypto-Republican, the Tough-Man Entrepreneur
...what I mean. I mean Sardi's back in the old days--back when gangsters went there, and showgirls, and all those members of what they called high society. Tommy's is like that too, in that too--in a strangely refracted way. The gangsters are usually crypto-punks in tortured leather, the showgirls strident and society--well, society usually consists of Keezer's on parade--but still, it has a certain something to it like Sardi's used to. It has that certain je ne sais quoi--I guess you could call it desperation. You see, nobody...
...decapitated, some executed in scalding-hot springs by shoguns and local lords. The ruthless persecution continued over the centuries. Officials forced suspected believers to tread on Christian images. In some places an annual oath renouncing Christianity was obligatory. One reminder of the past: at least 7,000 kakure Kirishitan (crypto-Christians) persist even today in practicing an odd form of Catholicism, just as their ancestors had to do in order to preserve their faith...
...Birmingham jars as awkwardly as the idea of putting a city with the Hellenic name of Athens in the middle of Georgia. The Asheville of Thomas Wolfe is a tourist trap of unremitting neon. Faulkner cruised the strip of Hollywood. The capital of the New South is Atlanta--a crypto-futuristic city where you can rise 72 stories in an outdoor glass elevator and drink martinis in a revolving bar and look down on people as they smash their automobiles headlong into one another in front of the largest Coca Cola plant on the face of the planet. Robert...
...shows us the majestic sights, the paralyzing winter, and the ever-present threat of loneliness and boredom that can drive a quiet little clergyman to publish a newsletter containing the sentence, "And what this INSANE crypto-Jewish riff-raff has planned for Homer and its citizens is no less than what the same antichrist Jewish riff-raff did to Russia. "He gives us details like a bar sign reading, "TAKE OFF YOU GODDAMNED BOOTS...