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Esoteric works, Prague linguistics, the letters of Alban Berg, and forgotten masterpieces like Baudelaire's Pauvre Belgique are elevated to the level on indispensable texts; like letters discovered several decades after their author's death, which then prompt a revision of his life and work these documents compel the reader...

Author: By James R. Atlas, | Title: On Reading | 12/13/1972 | See Source »

Though a democracy in most respects, Israel is also a theocracy. Among other things, religious law totally governs marriage and divorce. Israel's religious Jews and the bulk of its traditionalists-who together account for about 60% of the Jewish population-insist that this situation should not change. Nonreligious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: How to Save a Cabinet | 12/4/1972 | See Source »

The simplicity of Huebler's work does not negate great imagination and fantasy. Rather, it makes his art less esoteric and more inspiring than some of his conceptual cohorts. One delightful piece captures his ten-year-old daughter in a series of photographs. She was asked to pose...and instructed...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: The Art of Following Bird Calls | 11/1/1972 | See Source »

The films were cancelled because they violated an agreement made last Spring between some of the Harvard student film society and local theatres. That agreement limited student films to intellectual and esoteric movies which would not compete with local theater shows.

Author: By Susan F. Kinsley and Peter Shapiro, S | Title: Life in Cambridge Went On Without You | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

A He's probably absolutely correct, Clayton, you see, fancies himself as the moral and artistic leader of the black artistic community. He usually states the obvious rather well, in a rather esoteric and involved fashion. He's very, very bright, but not particularly wise. Being correct is not necessarily...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: White Liberal, Black Superman | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

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