Word: delphicly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dylan's eloquence stems partly from a salutary imprecision. His throbbing harmonica, Delphic imagery and occasional Chaplinesque two-step are constants, but his message, like the times, is continually changing. "This show is definitely not nostalgia," he whispered last week between silences and long stares. "To my mind, I deal with certain problems. It's an up-to-date show...
...astronomer's telescope that even more distant quasars, though less bright, should also be visible. Because astronomers do not see anything further, Sandage argues that the universe must be finite rather than infinite. And beyond that edge astronomers say there is nothing at all because, in the Delphic tongue of science, space at that distance falls back on itself...
...among the country's multitudinous political parties and keeping everyone guessing about his intentions. Would he find a way to unite the civilian opposition to Argentina's military government, and then run for the presidency in the elections scheduled for March 11? Perón was typically Delphic, carefully sidestepping the question at a press conference that he held on Saturday. But a top henchman, Hector Campora, has declared that Perón is an "irreversible candidate...
...denied the presidential nomination only if a convention draft could be engineered for Edward Kennedy. But for months Kennedy has disavowed any interest in making the run this year-a reluctance that gained some emphasis after the shooting of George Wallace. But last week, by a series of delphic and almost flirtatious statements, Kennedy seemed to be inserting himself back into the 1972 race...
...Delphic Questions. Several things are suggested; none is certain. Kate and Anna may have had a lesbian relationship. Deeley may once have known Anna beyond the voyeuristic intimacy of looking up her white thighs at a party. Did Deeley or Kate go with Anna to the film Odd Man Out'? Delphic questions-Delphic answers, scattered clues to nowhere except perhaps the murky recesses of the subconscious mind...