Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such salty, down-to-earth treatment of an esoteric surgical specialty could have come only from New Zealand-born Sir Harold Delf Gillies, 74, onetime champion golfer, master of the fly rod, amateur painter and undisputed father of modern plastic surgery in Britain. As co-author of The Principles and...
Perhaps because the much assaulted U.S. ear is wearying of clamorous modern dissonances, audiences seem to be falling in love all over again with the more placid sonorities of the 18th century. That interest in turn has sent students burrowing through monastery attics, museums and castles in search of long...
Not since 1950, just before grand juries discovered that some of Bradley's stars were students not only of such esoteric subjects as music appreciation and square dancing but also point-shaving for gamblers, had Bradley sent a team east from Peoria to try its luck in the N.I.T...
Then there was singing, followed by toasts ("L'chayim!"-to life), followed by more singing, and the first of many talks by the Rebbe, during which everyone remained standing. The Rebbe spoke on the four levels on which, according to the Hasidim, the Bible is written: p'shat...
* A Hasidic term for leader, stemming from the Hebrew rabbi, meaning teacher. *An esoteric system of speculation on metaphysics which went in for much symbolical manipulation of words and names. The cabala originated in Palestine but came under strong Babylonian influence between 500 and 900 A.D. Its best-known work...