Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Salerno's attitude is typical--the people down at WHRB's studo in the basement of Mem Hall refuse to prostitute their taste and pander to the people at large. WHRB has a fixed image, and they are proud and defensive about it. No rock 'n' roll ever comes over...
This esoteric image doesn't simply mean that WHRB plays no "top 40" records. It means that there is no "Muzak"--sound track and other light music--and that there is nothing "slicked over, or glossed over, to sell." You won't hear Baez, Seeger>, or Peter, Paul and Mary...
The better the equipment, and the better the programming, the more professional the sound. But, no matter how good WHRB standards are, WHRBies are not professionals interested in radio communication alone. Like any college activity with a considerable time commitment, the station is run by devotion as much as ability...
You can hardly call a writer Esoteric whose work is taught in two courses in the University. But the poet John McArdin Berryman, who visited Cambridge last month to great for the Advocate, enjoys a certain underground popularity in the East that is greater than the sum of the responsible...
The nation's "esoteric" law schools "fail to help the practicing lawyer," fumes E. Donald Shapiro. "They prattle about great principles, but who is helping the slob in Cedar Rapids?"