Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once, only professionals risked their money at the perilous pastime of making such esoteric guesses as how many potatoes would bud, the quality of hog bellies, the size of the soybean crop, and the number of cocoa beans on Ghanaian trees. But after tasting quick profits with the glamour stocks...
Frozen Force. In piling up his ele gant string of credits (among them: 13 Hitchcocks, six Markhams, scripts for General Electric Theatre, Alcoa, Goodyear, Schlitz Playhouse), Writer Silliphant has become known as television's thinking man. His scripts, say his devoted admirers, may occasionally be a little short on...
In all, it markets 40 product groups, from Rose's Lime Juice, lemon barley squash and phosferine tonic wine to jelly, jams, canned foods and Christmas pudding. But tonic is the mainstay, and Sir Frederick Hooper, a onetime botany student who became the firm's managing director in...
One commodity market that is in better shape than ever is the esoteric and specialized worldwide market in postage stamps. In Manhattan last week, the costliest stamp in history was auctioned for $41,000 by Bernard Harmer, U.S. partner of London's H. R. Harmer Ltd., the world'...
After Marilyn Monroe's death, it might have been expected that a vast cult would develop, necrophilic and worshipful, similar to the one that lengthened the notoriety of James Dean. But the cult of Marilyn has turned out to be more esoteric. Her memory is tended by the somewhat...