Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Efficient Edith Helm, White House social secretary, was momentarily nonplussed. At a press conference someone said he had heard that Bess Truman "used to beat even the boys at mumblety-peg when she was a child in Independence. She used to pull the peg out with her teeth, too." Quickly...
Thanks to a Broadway hit called The Cocktail Party (TIME, Jan. 30), his name at last was beginning to be more frequently encountered. Some of the higher-browed reviewers had called the play "esoteric." But the people who crowded to see it night after night were not predominantly highbrows (there...
Schoenberg: Serenade, Op. 24 (Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting a string and woodwind septet with baritone voice; Esoteric Records, 2 sides LP). Composed in 1923, this is one of the first works in which Schoenberg utilized his twelve-tone technique. After a few hearings, something listenable begins to emerge. Performance and recording...