Word: secret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Number of KKK members, of course, is secret. No wonder. Most of these Klansmen are older men, and the Klan's recent attempts to pretend that it is a political lobby like any other have been a transparent failure. "Let's face it," Wilkinson later tells me privately. "We had a couple of million members in the '20s, but we haven't got anywhere near that now. We just want to get the same attention from the press that the blacks...
...strict price in terms of social and economic reform. Among the proposed demands: a completely rebuilt army, a remodeled central bank, better food distribution, and guarantees that there will be no government reprisals against the civilian population of Shaba, which has never liked Mobutu and made little secret of its sympathy for the invading rebels...
...excesses of this and other centuries and finds them wanton. Archaeologists uncover the ruins of a rudimentary civilization: a partially excavated fast-food restaurant with the French fries still intact. An inflatable cathedral is invented for tourists who want a distinguished setting at a moment's notice. The secret of the Pyramids is revealed: the ancient Egyptians wanted to sharpen their giant razor blades. Macaulay, a prizewinning children's book author and illustrator, likes to turn things upside down-literally: his Arc de Defeat is only an arc de triomphe on its back. But his best work...
...mainly from the point of view of Damien's disbelieving parents. Even after they began to see that there was something fishy about their offspring, they still had to discover the hard way just how large was the conspiracy of devil's disciples assigned to protect the secret of his origins and mission. In the new movie most of Damien's protectors telegraph their satanic allegiance the minute they appear, and William Holden as his decent uncle-guardian is constantly kept at a distance from the lad's evil doings...
...mail. When she was a child, Mina was caught going through her mother's love letters in the attic. Shortly after she returned from her honeymoon, she read her husband's letters from his first wife. "I was convinced," she explains, "that the clue to the secret of life, the creative process, lay in personal letters intended for somebody else." Finally, in middle age, she turned her disreputable habit to professional use. In 1947 the sneak reader openly set out to gather the letters of an equally passionate voyeur, Marcel Proust. The story of her search...