Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, with most of the Kennedys looking on, the President handed out the foundation's first awards for outstanding achievement. The story of the awards was buried under a layer of headlines about Jack Kennedy's first public appearance with Adlai Stevenson since the furor over Stevenson...
Splintering Fragments. At California's Aerojet-General Corp., another esoteric operation called ''fissio-chemistry" uses the enormous energy of fissioning uranium to slam molecules together. So far, the most promising product of the process is hydrazine, a derivative of which is used as highenergy, self-igniting fuel...
Herring & Hot Plates. This year's crop of Americans in Russia comes from campuses as diverse as Berkeley and Emory. Most students are in their early 30s; all speak Russian. Topics of study tend to be esoteric: Russian comment on the French Encyclopedist Diderot, peasant self-government after the...
Cult & Industry. Removed from its natural backgrounds, folk singing has become both an esoteric cult and a light industry. Folk-song albums are all over the bestseller charts, and folk-singing groups command as much as $10,000 a night in the big niteries. As a cultural fad folk singing...
Controlling the Gemini during re-entry and gliding it through the lower atmosphere to a proper landing place are certainly jobs for a man with experience in winged aircraft, but the rest of the flight will call for very different skills. One of the men on board will have to...