Word: utterings
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Students enrolled in the course were instructed not to utter the words "cryptanalysis," "intelligence" or "security" outside the classroom under any circumstances. They were also warned not to leak any information to the media...
Shaposhnikov's fears may be exaggerated, but the utter failure of the C.I.S. to mediate even a temporary cease-fire in Karabakh suggests that the Commonwealth may go the way of its Soviet predecessor. Five of the 11 leaders invited to the most recent C.I.S. summit meeting failed even to show, and the leading Azeri presidential candidate last week declared his intention to withdraw Azerbaijan from the Commonwealth entirely...
...color and light and sound." His revivals have ranged from an acidulous The Front Page to a pixilated Anything Goes; his new works have varied from the farcical Lend Me a Tenor to the philosophical Six Degrees of Separation. What all Zaks shows have in common is hurtling energy, utter clarity and stylishness that somehow never intrude on the honesty of the characters...
...failure at the age of 44 without leaving a single recorded comment on his art or, indeed, on anything else, beyond declaring that "I endeavour to make the composition tell a story." But one may be fairly sure that if his ghost saw the Met's catalog, it would utter an Irish oath of bewilderment. It features essays by 22 scholars, all solemnly excogitating on such weighty matters as whether the horseshoes in his pictures are from dray horses or Thoroughbreds. If one wanted an example of how art history gets trivialized by sheer overpopulation of the field and turned...
...should try hard to read each other's remarks at face value and to make it as easy as possible for each other to back off from positions we often never wish to represent. It perplexes me to watch students seem to have a thick skin for the utter neglect some professors and people in power show them and thin skin for the unintended wounds peers who take them seriously cause...