Word: esotericism
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Although the historians involved admit the controversy is unusually intense because of present concerns over racial issues, Fogel's detractors and defenders both say that the final evaluation of the book's worth rests on more esoteric issues, like the accuracy of Fogel's comparison of pre-Civil War Northern...
Perhaps the most common of Harvard theories is that it's the Best, period and everything else falls into place from there; no doubt you share that view. All sorts of American education councils are constantly trying to quantify this theory by rating various schools according to esoteric criteria, but...
The professionals have made a botch of it, in Percy's view: the transformational grammarians, bickering over esoteric aspects of an arcane theory, have lost sight of the forest for the trees. And they've lost sight of language, too--the proper concerns of linguists have been parceled out to...
Ticknor Library. One of the Best overlooked places around-It's the first floor library in Boylston Hall. You get desks, soft chairs, and a free selection of newspapers, some of which are esoteric.
"God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good." So Genesis I sums up the creation of the world. But one family of Near Eastern sects had the opposite view: it believed that the Creator and his work were evil, and that men's souls...