Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was not the first time the HGC went esoteric. Davison had objected to the prize song in 1921, and only agreed to enter the contest that year on the understanding that future prize songs should have every contestant's approval. For the next three years Harvard essentially chose the...
Roussel: The Spider's Feast (Paris Philharmonic conducted by René Leibowitz; Esoteric). The composer's most popular work, in an LP première. The music was written for a ballet (vintage 1912) about insects, but it is a work of freshness and real symphonic flow.
Bernice Judis, manager of Manhattan's radio station WNEW, has a publicist's knack for making news with the unusual. She has spiced her programing with such off-beat shows as José Ferrer Presents Shakespeare and A Treasury of the Spoken Word, featuring recordings by Bernard Shaw...
In his featured column Moley, a former professor at Columbia, made reference to what he called Stevenson's "bored acceptance of the hopeless weakness and dumbness of the average man." He further alluded to the Illinois Governor's "esoteric rationalization" and said, "There is much evidence of indecision and an...
This year the department is offering only five full courses and twenty-eight half courses, including those primarily for graduates and such esoteric items as English 191 hf (The Study of Fine Books.) For a concentrator who must take six courses, this permits very little latitude.