Word: esotericism
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Meanwhile, the diary continues to evolve untested. A handful of people had paged over sections and catalyzed rumors of its artistry, but they couldn't persuade her to publish. That would cut both an end from her existence--separating her from a "Kief, hashish, and opium pipe," a single staunch...
When many of the chosen films are guaranteed swift commercial release, the festival is accused of being a kind of swank showcase, the plaything of movie distributors. At other times-this year's festival is an example-there are no ambitious films from Hollywood, few major works from the...
Gerry Mulligan, at the Jazz Workshop through Sunday, is an exuberant baritone saxophonist who came up through the big-band establishment and is now ever-so-slightly progressive. He usually plays with a piano-bass-drums quartet, and he names his songs after esoteric novels sometimes. You should probably also...
As Steiner comes to acknowledge, the event that Fischer called "this little thing between me and Spassky" was not so minor after all. "To an extraordinary number of human beings," he concludes, "the events of that summer communicated a rare sense of intensity... for several months, a totally esoteric, essentially...
Ornstein and a colleague have just launched a series of experiments to determine whether individuals can be taught to use one brain hemisphere or the other at will. EEG electrodes applied to both sides of the scalp pick up the subject's alpha waves (brain rhythms of a person...