Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debussy (Marisa Regules, pianist; Esoteric). Argentine Pianist Regules applies her precise and prodigious technique to six works by the great impressionist and to the special problems posed by the little Siena pianoforte (TIME, Aug. 29). The result is something special. The sound is not quite so singing as Debussy intended...
All Blood Is Red. Once Author Furnas deserts history far genetics, he goes off on some fairly esoteric, and often vague, tangents ("Families showing six-toedness as a recessive trait are a good rule-proving exception"). In a tone of things-I-never-knew-till-now, he announces several latter...
¶ Enrico C. S. Molnar of Compton, Calif., Episcopal priest, onetime Methodist : "To my mind our Communion most fully expresses the marks of being the 'extension of the Incarnation . . .' None of [my books] need be relegated to a hidden shelf, just because I am an Episcopalian. There is...
"He is a native of the James family and has no other country," said brother William of Henry. As spiritual geography this was true enough, but in point of physical fact, Henry's boyhood was spent in a roomy house on Manhattan's 14th Street. Though he was...
For Coach Rusty Callow, the main problem of a comeback for his aging world-beaters was a bit more esoteric: how to keep ever-present wives from heckling their husbands. But Rusty's fears were groundless. The women have proved willing to let their men eat at training table...