Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But others felt the contents of the magazine were too esoteric for the general reader.
A native New Yorker, Gewanter studied writing and literature at Madison and Berkeley. His own college projects tended towards the esoteric, including a one-act drama starring a deconstructionist who is charged with writing a bomb threat. (The gist of the excessively postmodern plot is derived from Foucault's "What...
The controversy over a defect in Intel Corp.'s popular Pentium microchip heated up as scientists and engineers accused the company of being too casual in its response to the problem. According to a Nov. 7 article in the Electrical Engineering Times, the flaw in the chip can cause computers...
Star Trek has always had its literary pretensions; allusions to Shakespeare abound, and it has often been compared to The Odyssey. "There was something heroic and epic to the underlying themes," says Patrick Stewart, a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. "In terms of its ambition, the stage on which...
"Professor Greenblatt's class is much smaller, obviously more interactive, and more tuned for people who have been studying English as a major," says Deborah Kory '95, who is enrolled in both classes. "Greenblatt is more... improvisational... and he tends to be at least thus far a little more esoteric...