Word: esotericism
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The answer, alas, is quite a lot. Dybbuk, which was given its world premiere at Lincoln Center last week by the New York City Ballet, is a wan and murky evocation of the Hasidic legend that is all but drowned in a sea of pretentious metaphysical subfusc. The dybbuk story...
The golden age for theaters in Cambridge must certainly have been the '60s and the first years of the '70s--years during which even esoteric film festivals would catch on quickly, when fairly large numbers of college kids for the first time began to center their lives around the movies...
"In today's society, scientific discovery is too often equated with the solution of a self-defined intellectual challenge, and the results are esoteric in terms of immediate benefit to mankind," Weller said.
Sir / It is interesting to observe that the Symbionese Liberation Army [Feb. 18] did not invent its symbol, the seven-headed cobra. This is an old symbol of Hindu mythology, representing first a Naga, a sacred serpent born of Kadru and the sage Kasyapa. then the serpent-king Sesha, who...
Now that the Mahavishnu Orchestra has collapsed, some sort of mantle must fall to Return to Forever. Miles is unreliable, the others too esoteric. Corea has the answer; controlled improvisation, and a foundation that's as solid as rock.