Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was having trouble on another stage. He collaborated on a Swedish translation of esoteric U.S. Writer Djuna Barnes's allusive verse play, The Antiphon, which opened in Stockholm. Critics thought the play largely unintelligible, though one exonerated Hammarskjold, explaining that the translation job was...
The movie, like the Festival, is a potpourri, ranging from Louis Armstrong's Dixieland Blues to the esoteric West Coast sound of Chico Hamilton. Jimmy Guiffre does his best piece, "The Train and the River," aided by Bob Brookmeyer. Thelonious Monk crashes through "Blue Monk." Anita O'Day does two...
Mr. Stern and Columbia Records have done an admirable job with the Festival, but, more important, they have made a very fine movie. By alternating shots of the performers with closeups of the more responsive members of the Festival audience, they have succeeded in relating the music to the listeners...
The orthodox view of Christianity is that Jesus preached the same doctrine to all men-there was no inner circle of "initiates" with special knowledge, as in Gnosticism and the mystery religions. The minority, which holds that Christianity was originally esoteric, with secret teachings hidden from the masses of the...
Behind Seven Veils. According to Clement, Mark, while he was with Peter in Rome, wrote ''an account of the Lord's doings" that presumably was the basis of his Gospel as it is now known. But he withheld those "doings" which only the initiated should have knowledge...