Word: eclecticism
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By far the most colorful of the three major Buddhist branches, however, was Vajrayana, the "Diamond Vehicle" adopted in Tibet in the 7th century. Instead of attaining complete enlightenment gradually, Tibetan monks claimed to do so in a single lifetime, an approach compared by Rick Fields, author of the American...
Part of Woolworth's charm lay in its eclectic merchandise, which were often so small and obscure that even customers had no idea how to ask for the things they sought.
In short, the questions Gould poses about the millennium are usually far more interesting than the answers. Instead of dealing with contemporary psychological and cultural reasons behind the millennial obsession-say, that New Year's Day 2000 may well become the next big conversation opener and common experience of our...
The restaurant featured "an eclectic New American regional cuisine," according to the Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard.
My succor came disguised as a first-year seminar. What could be better than, as the coursebook promised, a semester filled with characters such as Macbeth and Hannibal Lecter, or Joe Christmas and Huck Finn? Intrigued by the eclectic reading and the nature of the work, I applied to two...