Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jazz albums were fairly esoteric items until 1950, when Columbia's first Benny Goodman collection made a smash success. Since then, a dozen new jazz labels have sprung up (mostly on the West Coast), and by last week the major record companies were up to their spiral grooves in...
Merrill's second editorship, from 1919 to his death in 1940, has been characterized by Bulletin historians as the period of the "frogs of Guatemala." This epithet does not imply that there ever was a Bulletin article specifically discussing Guatemalan frogs, but only that there might as well have been...
And although the aforementioned frogs never do reach the Bulletin's cover, their African brothers do in the cover article "Hunting Frogs in African Forests," which appeared in the issue of January 18, 1935. The apes, however, made the Bulletin cover twice: once on December 22, 1933 ("The Apes in...
Especially difficult is the "short-short" story or play. Shopping and Waiting, by James Schuyler, the first of four plays given by the Poets' Theatre, is a five-minute piece that is scarcely more than an esoteric joke. A supernatural toy dealer mystifies tow earthly patrons with his clairvoyance; the...
The turn came one day in class when a graduate student named Wayne Overman began asking the professor some knotty questions about tensor density, an esoteric aspect of upper-story mathematics. To Overman's surprise, Yates seemed completely unaware of an outstanding German authority on the subject, and more...