Word: esotericism
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Yet it will be asking a great deal of faculty members to admit that their field is too esoteric to be considered an essential part of a college career-particularly because the more important a department is considered, the more staff members it can hire, and the more time faculty...
Those former stockholders who can afford it are turning to some esoteric outlets that are not conventionally thought of as investments: gems, rare stamps and coins, furniture, even whisky bottles. Max Martin, an insurance salesman in San Rafael, Calif, got out of the market in 1973 and into diamonds. Says...
Hendrikus Johannes Witteveen, 56, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is the most enigmatic international civil servant since the days of Dag Hammarskjeid, the mystic who died in a plane crash while serving as Secretary-General of the United Nations. An economist by training, Witteveen always carries a...
Esoteric Devices. Partly, the U.S.S.R.'s computer development lags because of its decision not to foster the kind of consumer society that has nurtured the rapid growth of the industry in the West. Of the large number of computers installed in the U.S. (300,000, v. an estimated 22...
In the Soviet Union, by contrast, computers are still regarded as esoteric devices to be used only for the highest-priority scientific, industrial and military purposes. A Western cybernetics expert in Moscow estimates that while an American has dealings linked with a computer at least ten times a day, the...