Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that interviewers would be mainly concerned with odd experiences that he has had during his career as a proctor, and stories about funny things that happen in exams ignore what is really humorous about them. "I am the comic element in these exams," he explains. Some day he will reveal all, Edwards says, but in the meantime, he wants to remain an enigma...
...their performance is judged against the plan. Blackmail is a favorite recruitment tactic, with sex and drugs the standard come-ons, but sometimes other pressure is applied as well. Last month Iranian Major General Ahmed Mogharebi confessed that he had spied for the KGB after Soviet agents threatened to reveal his past membership in Iran's outlawed Communist Party, Tudeh. The leader of the Iranian spy ring, a government official named Ali-Naghi Rabbani, had sophisticated radio equipment for receiving Soviet satellite transmissions in his home. Rabbani's clandestine contact was the Soviet consul in Tehran, Boris Kabanov...
...play's advertising representatives have asked the critics not to reveal the plot, but this seems rather silly--Deathtrap is tricky in a very predictable way. One has little chance to be confused: Bruhl constantly discusses the theatrical potential of the murders he commits, and ten lines rarely pass without a plot recap. It's rather like the old math problem about the frog in the slippery well who cannot jump three feet without falling back two. In addition, Levin makes his characters as self-conscious as his playwrighting. "Nothing recedes like success," quips Bruhl, and is so taken with...
...places where Harvard does spend its time and money may reveal something about the priorities of the admissions program. Like Richardson, most staff members are on the road between six and eight weeks a year, both to recruit and to conduct interviews. While Jewett says he cannot be precise about the kind of effort that goes into minority recruitment, he does say he has a clear picture of other segments of the applicant pool...
...Flann O'Brien Reader aids and abets this judgment. Flannophile Stephen Jones has collected samples from four novels, a long Gaelic tale, stories, essays, teleplays and reams of humorous journalism. Jumbled together in this manner, the pieces gradually reveal a single mind behind the pseudonyms, one that was drunk with words and more than ready to defend fair language at the drop of a solecism...