Word: divinatione
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To assist in divination, game companies bring in packs of sockless teen-agers to play prototypes, and hire as consultants professors of almost anything?engineering, psychology computer science, possibly even medieval French literature. At Bally, three teams of about 25 engineers, artists, computer programmers and game developers work on translating...
What had gone wrong? One theory favored by Sinologists was that Deng Xiaoping had concluded that his people had let off enough steam, and that further permissiveness by party leaders was an invitation to anarchy. In fact, China's press for the past few weeks has been filled with...
In childhood all books of divination, telling us about the future," observes Graham Greene. "And like the fortune teller who sees a long journey in the cards or death by water, they influence the future."
Banished to Section 40 as a sophomore, I had consoled myself with Jack Daniels and divination: no doubt that, when a senior, I would gaze down like Caesar at the spectacle laid before me.
Few people out-and-out believe in prophecy. Lucky guesses happen along now and then, and mathematicians thrive on the so-called educated guess. But a person bluff enough to crane his neck toward the future and expound on the view over yonder is all too often blushing from more...