Word: esotericism
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Like the Nobel medicine prizes awarded in October, the chemistry and physics awards announced last week were both belated and well deserved. But they were given for achievement so esoteric that few laymen could even begin to understand it. Said a Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences spokesman in announcing the...
Look for symbols and esoteric meanings if you want. But if you do, you will be making "Alphaville" far deeper than Godard does. Godard is concerned with a contemporary world that is young, that lives, that is full of sex and violence and triteness that produces Batmen and Lone Rangers...
Sir: Your Essay on Pop-Psych [Oct. 7] bristles with thinly veiled snobbery. "Pop-psych" is one of the few esoteric studies that have ever reached "the mass" intact; the popularity of pop-psych indicates a widespread concern among human beings. The very fact that psychology has some relevance outside...
Boots to Last. Less esoteric but equally important problems have fallen to the center's scientific attack. When it was found that Thai soldiers were wearing through their U.S.-made boots within six months, scientists made a survey of Thai foot shapes, found them to be substantially different from...
TIME has written well about an American version of such an "esoteric sect." I sympathize with this sect's impatience regarding slow-moving American Church reform and renewal but not with its attempt to shape the Church according to its own fancy.