Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tuesday's program of Baroque and modern pieces illustrated two current musical trends: revival of the 17th Century and the growing public interest in products of our own era. And the concert made it further apparent that concern for the present day has begun to outstrip our fascination with the...
A quietly intent group of people who care about poetry and theatre has come again to the surface of the not so esoteric world. Poets' Theatre brought Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell to read their own work Sunday in Sanders Theater. The names have made headlines and aroused...
In its new edition of the Television Dictionary/Handbook, Sponsor Services Inc. lists 2,200 TV terms, a big jump from the 300 carried in the first (1950) TV dictionary. Some of the more esoteric TV words:
"Lawyers are dealing with an entirely new situation," King said. "The world has an effect upon him, both as a lawyer and a community leader, which nobody even contemplated 20 years ago. International Studies have become an integral part of legal training instead of an unimportant esoteric study."
"I think that law in the United States has suffered some retrogression of recent date ... I do not think that the full meaning and value of law are communicated to society through the law's own formal processes . . . To be effective, the rule of law must be comprehended by...