Word: esotericism
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Women's studies, therefore, must necessarily be interdisciplinary. But it is not an esoteric or an unwieldy project for a responsible university. We support the establishment of a degree-granting committee for women's studies, similar to Social Studies or to History and Literature. Regardless of its actual structure, such...
Yet another consequence of university control of contemporary literature is an abundance of esoteric criticism, far removed from the substance of life and history that make literature rich and relevant. With authority that must be the envy of any undergraduate, Epstein notes the ubiquitous "demonstration of techniques for proving that...
ALL OF THESE men, as Lonsdale says of Pope, will survive with or without his attentions. The editor's real concern lies with "some of the totally forgotten men and women whose literary bones I disturbed after they had slumbered peacefully for some two hundred years..." In a sense, Lonsdale...
While calling the incident "regrettable," the Soviet news agency TASS blithely declared that "the entire responsibility for it lies fully on the American side." Top Pentagon officials bluntly warned the Soviet embassy's military attaches in Washington that their conduct was unacceptable and served notice that they want more explicit...
Another bright spot was the discovery of an element of basketball that had previously seemed esoteric: the rebound. Harvard boxed out and underneath and grabbed a respectable 35 rebounds, compared to 37 for Brown, a significantly taller team.