Word: esotericism
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Although generally held in high esteem, Schama—former Mellon professor of the social sciences and Kenan professor of the humanities at Harvard until 1993—has intermittently come under fire for some of his more esoteric projects. The fallout from his bizarre 1991 speculative murder history, ?...
By NATHANIEL NADDAFF-HAFREY and ERIC L. FRITZCrimson Staff WritersJunior Boys: “So This is Goodbye”At risk of taking the easy way out, I have to say that the most recent offering from Canada’s Junior Boys’ turns a neat trick...
The elves have returned. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy and its prequel, The Hobbit, are some of the best-selling and best-loved novels of all time. But the relatively small body of work published during Tolkien's lifetime describing his remarkably rich and cohesive Middle...
There’s a certain amount of mystery in the air around the Literature department–or maybe that’s just the cigarette smoke. Lit’s got a rep for being one of Harvard’s more esoteric concentrations, filled with artsy Advocate...
Unless you’re terminally jaded—or terminally ill—your sense of wonder has yet to be crushed. With clubs and societies for almost any conceivable interest, big names making speeches, and interesting and esoteric lectures, odds are there’s something to do...