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Word: esotericism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the plot, which was written by Dori Schmidt, appears much less inane that those which inflict many musicals. The story deals with the antagonism between an esoteric poet, and a poet-hating female stock broker, and the somewhat hestitant romance between their children.

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Drumbeats and Song | 3/2/1956 | See Source »

The church must "reassume its ancient and proper responsibility and productivity with reference to all the arts," an undertaking that "it could well begin by purging its own arts [of the] insipid or precious or esoteric or sentimental."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Art Needs the Church | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

Some students industriously select the University's most esoteric-sounding courses to impress their friends and the folks back home. The more realistic usually seek a gut for a fourth course. The green book is full of courses; so, to please both these elements, the CRIMSON takes another plunge into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Need a Course: II | 2/2/1956 | See Source »

Nameless Mission. West Pointer Merrill got command of an esoteric collection of U.S. infantrymen. They formed the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), whose parenthetical appendage proved symbolic. Culled from jungle-trained troops throughout the Pacific Theater, including a full battalion of Guadalcanal veterans (already thoroughly infected with malaria), the 3,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Man Who Gave | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

I am utterly frustrated by "gyascutus, prock, tree squeak and swamp gaboon" [Nov. 28]. You frequently footnote less esoteric phrases. Please elucidate.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1955 | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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