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Word: esotericism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Toughened up by energetic devotion to his career as a gentleman farmer, Northrup Knox, 28, of Buffalo, N.Y. and Aiken, S.C., demonstrated an almost tireless skill at the esoteric game of court tennis. After an afternoon's romp on the court at Boston's Tennis and Racquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

¶Jan Muller, 34, German-born painter who came to the U.S. in 1941, is another Hans Hofmann pupil who still sticks by his abstract teacher's general principles but feels, "Abstract art is too esoteric. The image gives one a wider sense of communication." Now hitting his stride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Younger Generation | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Author Mary McMinnies, herself a charter mem-sahib (as wife of a Foreign Service official in Malaya), has a cold Waugh eye and ear for colonial types. The U.S. reader, however, cutting his way through the alphabet jungles of British officialese, should know that D.O.M. does not stand for some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Unquiet Englishman | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Several years ago the New York Times Published a somewhat whimsical article predicting the demise of legitimate theatre outside of a few large Broadway houses. The situation has completely changed since then, and the ads of new and original theatre groups bid for one's attention in the Sunday Times...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Off-Broadway | 3/1/1957 | See Source »

Christian Wolff's music is not easily accessible either. It is a decidedly esoteric product of the John Cage cult, although probably better than anything Cage has done. Mr. Wolff played four pieces for piano and one for prepared piano. The technique is pointillist; tones are widely dispersed over the...

Author: By Bert Baldwin, | Title: Composers' Lab Concert | 12/5/1956 | See Source »

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