Word: decipherer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Figuring out Joyce esoterica is a lifetime pursuit, and nobody has ever come up with a consistent theory to explain it all. But just maybe it can all be reduced in the same way that Bloom's world was reduced to Molly's backside, to one image: discharges Joyce like...
Four Missions. By one estimate, the NSA spends $1.2 billion a year and employs 25,000 people, compared with the CIA's $750 million and 16,500 workers. At its Fort Meade, Md., headquarters, variously known as "Disneyland" and "the Puzzle Palace," the NSA labors in extraordinary anonymity to...
Nevertheless, the look of Islamic art is overwhelmingly abstract and, to a Western eye, puzzlingly so. This is partly due to the circumstance that, illiterate in Arabic, a Westerner cannot decipher the inscriptions or savor the interplay between conceptual and visual meaning in Islamic calligraphy. One can visually enjoy the...
Because the script is so very intricate, it seems, it is difficult for outside observers like the explorer to understand. In fact, the aging, sentimental officer who operates the harrow tells the explorer, only the lawbreaker himself can be said to have no trouble with the script--and this even...
For over 12 years, now, most Americans have shared the difficulties of the explorer--watching, at first passively and then with mounting disapproval, first passively and then with mounting disapproval, as officers who appealed to their sense of justice and tradition inflicted prolonged punishment on people from a distant country...