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Word: esotericism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

"After considerable research, reflection and certain esoteric rites )to do with a bottle) I find that all sings point to the following:

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taylor-Made President | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: The Grolier Book Shop | 3/11/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Villagers in Manhattan | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

"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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jan. 12, 1953 | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

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:

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vicious Verse Viles Candid Claverly Wall | 12/11/1952 | See Source »

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