Word: esotericism
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I find reprehensible the publicizing and glamorizing of, in my opinion, another example of a lost, freaky youngster who, like countless others, is engulfed in his own esoteric world of egomania, copping out, cacophony, inarticulateness and insignificant ideas.
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...
Cucumber Cream. Organic materials have been used in cosmetics for years, but only in small amounts (to lend eye lids "the impudent luster of fresh celery") and always with a chemical preservative added to extend shelf life. Today, as a direct byproduct of the back-to-nature health-food boom...
This kind of genius, and that is what it is, comes to us so rarely that when it does, it defies all our expectations, all our pretentious preconceptions, all our prejudices. Elizabeth Bishop caters to no one, except to the careful reader. Her poems are not easy, and they make...
Essentially Irrational. Astrology 14 is not exactly moving either heaven or earth within the trade. Established astrologers like Carroll Righter, who built reputations and fortunes on a 12-sign system, dismiss Schmidt's theories as "meaningless." U.S.C. Astronomy Professor Gibson Reaves points out that "astrology is essentially irrational, and...