Word: esotericism
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Rubens was not an esoteric artist. The world did not veil itself from him in ambiguities. Perhaps no other painter since Titian displayed such an assured possession of his own experience, and beside it, even Picasso's notable lebenslust seems rather cramped. In a sense, Rubens was to the...
BUT OTHER PEOPLE evidently felt otherwise, Fifty busloads of anti-somethings were dumped on Clemente Park from Chicago. New York, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Birmingham, Ala., Baltimore, St. Louis, and South Dakota. There were also fantastic groups with esoteric names and nifty leaflets.
Referring to Harper, Minevitz said, "There are two different kinds of people you could choose. You could choose someone real artsy and esoteric, who's been in foreign films and stuff. Or you could choose someone like we did, someone who has almost unlimited mass appeal."
To judge from many a bookstore's religion shelf today, most of the U.S. reading public is variously interested in the occult (Edgar Cayce books; The Exorcism Series), pop piety (Joey Adams' The God Bit), sensationalized biblical "research" (The Jesus Party) or some aspect of esoteric Eastern religion...
He is neither polemical, esoteric, alienated nor even suicidal. Yet A.R. ("Archie") Ammons has belatedly emerged as a poet of major stature. Given the present state of poetry, that is not an all-out accolade. Yet at his best, Ammons is a poet who finds high images in the familiar...