Word: esotericism
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Painist Joseph Bloch, who has been hailed for his musical virtuosity throughout the world, will perform in an afternoon concert with an esoteric selection of the work of Seriabin and Haydn. In an evening recital. Miss Artmenta Adams-whose recent New York debut brought rave reviews to the young Julliaird...
In the lead article. Kaplan writes about Ibis's reaction to the new decade: "'Ninety-seventy, nineteen-schmeventy.' he [Ibis] sighed." not unaware of the ethnic implications of the syntactical construction he had chosen.'" The Spring Issue is better than usual, perhaps because most of the pieces were written by...
Tunics to Trunks. Department stores were only too delighted to respond to the spell. Most took full-page newspaper ads celebrating serpent fashions. Manhattan's Lord & Taylor opened a special shop, "Great Snakes," last month, stocked it with everything from real py thon tunics to synthetic-snake robes, jackets...
The Buendia men are introverted, impulsive, richly eccentric. José Arcadio, the founding father, all common sense when it comes to law or town design, is lured into alchemy and other esoteric sciences; he tries to use a daguerreotype machine to find the invisible player of his pianola. One of...
While his poetry has generally become clearer and more direct, Auden's language has become more esoteric. He has two copies of the 13-volume Oxford English Dictionary -one in New York and one in Austria-and he loves to look through them, finding such words as "bransles" and "whelking...