Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"After considerable research, reflection and certain esoteric rites )to do with a bottle) I find that all sings point to the following:
Conrad Aiken, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, is an example. He was first attracted to Grolier's by the usual assortment of esoteric books pyramided in the window. He became a regular visitor, and soon formed a literary friendship with Gordon C. Cairne, the shop's proprietor. In his autobiography Aiken...
I. (for Irene) RICE PEREIRA, 45, is a handsome, green-eyed woman who dresses more like a Paris model than the paint-spattered artist she is. Moreover, she can turn from painting to writing esoteric poetry, or to giving a public lecture on abstract art, without batting an eye. When...
"El Pili" Flamenco (Pedro Jimenez, cantador; Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, guitars; Esoteric). Cantador Jimenez (El Pili) shouts his uninhibited incantations while the guitars, torrid and teasing by turns, strum their gypsy rhythms. Full of authentic Andalusian excitement.
Claverly Hall's wall, long a vehicle for erudite expression and esoteric language, gave local literati a break this week with its first readable sentiment in several months, a limerick in plain English. Apparently scrawled in extreme haste in the dead of night, the limerick reads: