Word: esotericism
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And no wonder. In an age of intensive and instant communications, cryptography has acquired supreme importance in guessing and occasionally ascertaining the next step of friend and foe alike. Within the bowels of NSA, constant research is conducted into new theories and systems of communications and codes. Mathematicians probe the...
Whatever the Freudian significance of hair and its style fluctuations, it seems probable that the root causes of the new trend are neither deep nor esoteric. Any understanding of it must begin by making a distinction between the hippie and the respectable non-hippie with longish hair.
Another strange property of superconductors makes them ideal for use in computers; when they are placed in a magnetic field, their electrical resistance reappears. Thus by alternately applying and withdrawing a magnetic field, scientists can turn a superconductor into an on-off switching device many times faster (and many times...
Dancing with Daddy. The Exhibitionist is the story of a beautiful film star-Jet Merry Houseman, whose father is a fading movie idol. The plot is hardly original. Merry is an oversexed girl in search of herself, but she looks mostly in other people's beds. What she finds...
Borgmann, a Chicago actuary, displayed his linguistic passion in an earlier book, Language on Vacation (TIME, Sept. 17, 1965). He likes to dream up puzzles based on Q words, paradoxes, homonyms, palindromes, anagrams, acronyms and acrostics, all of which require something more than a smidgin of esoteric knowledge. Explain this...