Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The poetry in the Commencement issue seems largely designed to prove the esoteric leanings of Advocate contributors, for three of the poems have works of art as their subjects. Jennifer MacLeish (no relation) is the most successful, possibly because her poem about the mystic love of St. Francis is simple...
By noon the spellers were facing tougher words-esoteric, exorcism, codicil, etc.
More than 60 plays in four languages can be had on records-Calderón to Christopher Fry, Congreve to Chekhov to Shakespeare. A few of the recorded productions, e.g., Yeats's The Only Jealousy of Emer (Esoteric; $4.98), live beneath the needle as they never did under the...
At the top of this cylindrical temple, another esoteric form presides, resembling a rocket-ship, headed heavenward. This vessel for outer space might be very effectively employed in not wafting gently, but forcefully propelling recalcitrant MIT students into the Empyrean.
Donald H. Menzel '42, professor of Astrophysics, remarked that the unified field theory is "an extremely esoteric theory that has not yet been developed to the extent that the theory of relativity was." He believed that it is far too early to tell what effect the unified field will have...