Word: cryptograms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beneath behavior for motive, explains Mrs. Sykes as well as excoriates her. In fact, he explains everybody-a virtue that winds up as a kind of fault, because the play resorts to outside enlightenment rather than selfrevelation; it tells rather than shows. The result is more like a solved cryptogram than a thing of flesh & blood. But, if not a satisfying experience, The Deep Mrs. Sykes, with its verbal claws and vivid theater, is very often a stimulating...
...facilitated by the fact that he talks fluently in eight languages. What he talks about in them, and whom he talks to, would constitute a key-to the most sinuous and controversial politics pursued by any world power - the Church Temporal's diplomacy. It would also constitute a cryptogram of current history...