Word: esotericism
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Such incidents have become less frequent if only because, as one foreign diplomat puts it, "the mullahs have wiped out practically anyone who is not a mainstream fundamentalist." According to opposition guerrillas, Khomeini's men have executed 30,000 dissidents in all, while keeping more than 100,000 political...
Such a division of responsibilities would also enable our military establishment to shift some of its intellectual energies and scientific research from a hypothetical esoteric war in an area where we have major allies to the defense of regions where conflict is much more likely. In such regions our allies...
The department sessions will focus on questions about specific courses, "not esoteric discussions about the value of majoring in each field today," said Davila.
McRae claims the Pentagon financed psychic research to study the "shell game" basing mode for the MX missile, a system that would attempt to confuse Soviet military strategists by shifting missiles among a number of concrete shelters. Other esoteric programs uncovered by McRae include titles like "Novel Biological Information Transfer...
The myth and the romanticism of unifying the male and female form appear to have preoccupied H.D. in ways that are not always clear. Says Biographer Barbara Guest: "She had an assortment of ideas and events that were repetitious; they were thoughts and images that might be embellished by her...