Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever the Freudian significance of hair and its style fluctuations, it seems probable that the root causes of the new trend are neither deep nor esoteric. Any understanding of it must begin by making a distinction between the hippie and the respectable non-hippie with longish hair.
O.K., is all that clear to everybody? Of course it isn't, except to fairly serious sailors. What it is, approximately, is Skipper Bus Mosbacher's explanation of what his Intrepid crew does when rounding a buoy on an America's Cup racecourse. Taking such esoteric language...
Borgmann, a Chicago actuary, displayed his linguistic passion in an earlier book, Language on Vacation (TIME, Sept. 17, 1965). He likes to dream up puzzles based on Q words, paradoxes, homonyms, palindromes, anagrams, acronyms and acrostics, all of which require something more than a smidgin of esoteric knowledge. Explain this...
Audacious Whispers. Beardsley's figures often seem to be whispering audacious obscenities to each other. What they might be saying is suggested by his only novel, Under the Hill, which employs a curious mixture of four-letter words and effete and esoteric Gallicisms. Recently published by Grove Press ($3.95...
Let me warn you against the idea that the Chinese specialists have some esoteric or mythical wisdom they can give you. I don't think anybody here buys that anymore. A China specialist is a fellow who's trying to work on this problem more than other people are, but...