Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale's Economist Edgar Furniss, 67, for 20 years holder of the delicate and demanding position of provost of the university. A sort of buffer zone between the faculty and the corporation, Furniss' office in the Hall of Graduate Studies was the bright hope for any professor with...
The Law School method emphasized ideas instead of facts, and Goodhart criticized its lack of application to General Education. "There is nothing so esoteric in the study of law as to make it inapplicable," he added.
The Snow Was Black is another esoteric and macabre film from the French flick factories that seeks to demonstrate the effects of depravity and loss of hope. Artfully acted, it remains profoundly unconvincing in motivation, without a sense of unity, and almost cheap in exploitation of shock sequences.
Feel & Position. Nos. 10 and 11 are esoteric senses, little known but of great importance: vibratory and two-point discrimination sense. The vibratory sense is lodged in bone, which can feel the vibration of a tuning fork even when surrounding tissue cannot. Two-point discrimination (in itself a two-part...
The dissimilarities mask a pair of brilliant, happily meshed minds that operate effortlessly with talk that often runs to truncated sentences, single words, esoteric expressions. Ramo spends most of his time on missile work while Wooldridge handles the rest, but both decide company policy. So well tuned are the two...