Word: esotericism
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3) Adams House serves a fine scotch broth and a passable clam chowder. It was over a bowl of the latter that the young Radcliffe woman, fresh off the boat from the 'Cliffe (a small girls' college in Cambridge) met the young Harvard man, up for a day from the...
Failed Assumption. The simpler art looks, the more esoteric it seems to get. Probably this happens because we expect a work of art to be a rich crock of ideas and visual transactions, and if the box on the floor seems nothing of the sort we assume that its complexities...
According to Daniels, the Journal has ever 1000 subscribers, and a national newsstand circulation of 4000. "For $2.50 a year, you get two issues and possibly occasional special issues on very select, esoteric topics such as, for example, the political philosophy of Martin Luther King," said Daniels.
Collectors and souvenir hunters have always been inspired by strange and esoteric impulses. A lock of Napoleon's hair, which even Josephine would not have given a sou for, can today fetch upwards of $200. A frying pan used by Britain's "Great Train Robbers" when they were...
Esoteric Impulses. All told, the Munich auction last week sold some five dozen Hitler souvenirs, all of them from the estate of the late Anny Winter, who was Hitler's housekeeper from 1929 to 1945. Anny's ardor for collecting just about anything Hitler touched netted her grandnephews...