Word: guardedness
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Two Sisters is frequently open, particularly about bisexuality and Vidal's by now familiar and overexposed cynicism. Some parts are guarded and smirky for the lucky few. For example, not many readers will link the name of the real lady (N.A. Steers) to whom the book is dedicated with...
Just across the Athens-Piraeus electric railway, the dig looks more like the excavation for a large new office building than the repository of one of ancient Greece's most famous sites. But the signs of the celebrated stoa-which was about 60 ft. long and 20 ft. wide...
SUPPLIES of concrete and timber suddenly began vanishing all over Egypt. Some roads were closed to civilian traffic, as trucks bearing shrouded hardware rumbled to guarded sites in nighttime runs. Huge transport planes thundered ceaselessly into Cairo's airport, disgorging men and equipment. These mysterious comings and goings a...
At the regular commencement the University will award honorary degrees to persons "distinguished by their service to scholarship, community, or mankind." The names of the honorary degree recipients are always a closely guarded secret.
WE TRIED our best to be sexy and interesting, feminine and creative. Why then were the Harvard guys always the more creative musicians and writers, the more dynamic political leaders, while we had the obviously inferior merit of "getting better grades?" We, accepting even the humor of male-dominated Harvard...