Word: indirectness
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...thirds of the way around it. Apparently the moon was struck by a huge object and badly cracked, but the pieces froze together again like chunks of reformed ice cubes. And why is the strange moon lapetus ten times darker on one side than the other? Scientists found indirect signs that the inky black stuff may be carbon...
...Said he: "The President should say to Mr. Volcker, 'Look, we've made good progress with this policy, but now it is threatening to throw the economy into a serious recession, and it is time to loosen things up.' " The President himself last week took an indirect swipe at the Federal Reserve, when he told a California political fund raiser that high interest rates were "hurting us in what we are trying...
Whatever the merits of Britain's case, the Thatcher government's apparent callousness over the hunger strikers in the H-block has been costly, especially in the U.S. Since the death of Hunger Striker Bobby Sands in May, direct and indirect contributions to the I.R.A. from Irish-Americans have reportedly tripled. During a visit to New York last month, Prince Charles was the target of loud anti-British demonstrations. Last week Queen Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret-who caused a furor in a 1979 visit to the U.S. when she was reported to have called the Irish...
This is true of men, women, children, individually and in groups of all sizes. Nations and the realm of politics lean heavily on indirect gesture and charades to convey important messages. Take Secretary of State Alexander Haig's talks in China: Was not his actual purpose to send a signal to the Soviets? Societies signal prevalent values to their members by what is applauded and what condemned; status symbol is synonymous with status signal. "Language," said Samuel Johnson, "is the dress of thought." But all over the world people act as though language were mere costume-and usually...
Over the Jewish prayer question? Not at all. The issue was the Bible and how it shall be taught. A Southern Baptist president has one notable power: indirect control over nominations to boards that run the six Southern Baptist seminaries. Smith, like his predecessor, is a scriptural hard-liner who believes the Bible is "in-errant," free of errors in all matters spiritual and historical. Inerrantists believe, for example, that a whale actually swallowed Jonah and that Adam and Eve were individuals, not symbols. That is the faith of most grass-roots Southern Baptists but not necessarily of the seminary...