Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"There is a definite lack of advanced courses," Miss Hendrickson asserted, commenting, "At Sarah Lawrence, if you want to take something esoteric, you can't because the curriculum doesn't offer such courses."
But even on its own terms of historical analysis, the Department fails, the non-concentrator in its accomodations of the concentrator. Its policy of subdividing periods appears calculated to drives off the non-concentrators; these extremely limited courses are dry and historically incomplete because of a seemingly willful exclusion of...
Even though it was December, the winter around us with all its vital austerity, I asked her to my room again and again. But again and again, Snyde stayed around. Snyde--blond, from Beacon Hill, via Concord Reformatory--I hated him. He stayed around, picking his nose, reading old Crime...
But easy as it is to conclude that the university faculty exists to promote scholarship, it would be foolish to suppose that more than a small minority of its patrons, adult or younger, either seek or receive training in serious research. Scholarship has always been an important but esoteric pursuit...
Belt of the Muse. In moments of introspection Musician Engel thinks of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. "That genius," he says, "wrote to order. He had no time for the muse to belt him." If the muse has failed to lay a glove on Engel, it is chiefly because he moves too...