Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For a folk singing concert, it is almost a curiosity that all of the selections are in English. When asked why the group did not sing foreign songs, Jones remarked, "I guess we don't know any." A better explanation might be gleaned from the group's parody of esoteric...
With the exception of Julius Novick's article in extended praise of Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, and Paul Riesman's essay on "mentally fat professors," the quality of the writing in the first issue of Gadfly is surpassed only by a mediocre Gen. Ed. essay...
At 6:45 a.m. as usual, three-year-old Tommy, with whoops and cries of good fellowship, climbed into the bed and began to jump up and down on his father's waking form. "I like to get up early anyway," said Dr. James Alfred Van Allen philosophically, and...
Common denominator of this treasure-trove is Gnosticism, a potent heresy of Christianity's early days, which interpreted Jesus' life and teaching as an esoteric message of salvation directed to an elite equipped with secret knowledge. As such, most of the manuscripts are interesting mainly to scholars. But...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). For those with mathematically esoteric tastes, nothing beats a brisk panel discussion about testing Einstein's relativity by atomic clocks in outer space.