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Word: esotericism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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"May I show you how I stand on my head?" said the fiddle player to the Premier. Then both removed their shoes and jackets and went upsy-daisy to discuss the esoteric art of yoga. It was peppery Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, 76, paying a courtesy call on Violinist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 22, 1963 | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

Many of us who read and loved The Catcher in the Rye in the tender years of adolescence are puzzled by the new J. D. Salinger. We took Holden Caulfield to heart because he was our friend, betrayed and maltreated like us by an insensitive world. But the Glass family...

Author: By Charles S. Whitman, | Title: More on Seymour | 2/28/1963 | See Source »

Both Smith and Frazier have conducted vigorous campaigns during the past several weeks, visiting members in their rooms and soliciting their votes by mail. The candidates do not differ politically--both are liberals--so the contest has been fought on a more esoteric basis.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YD's to Choose President | 2/20/1963 | See Source »

Up from Disney. Packard and Hewlett have made a success out of two deceptively simple decisions: to make nothing but electronic measuring instruments, and to insist on rigid standards of quality. At Hewlett-Packard, specialization is only relative. The company's catalogue lists more than 900 devices designed for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Reluctant Tycoons | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

Macmillan did not dare attempt the tune, merely declaimed the words sonorously. But the astute owners of a London satirical sheet called Private Eye snipped the passage from a tape recording of Macmillan's speech and re-recorded it, with backing from a twangy rock-'n'-roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: It's Only Macbelieve | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

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