Word: esotericism
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Salerno's attitude is typical--the people down at WHRB's studo in the basement of Mem Hall refuse to prostitute their taste and pander to the people at large. WHRB has a fixed image, and they are proud and defensive about it. No rock 'n' roll ever comes over...
You can hardly call a writer Esoteric whose work is taught in two courses in the University. But the poet John McArdin Berryman, who visited Cambridge last month to great for the Advocate, enjoys a certain underground popularity in the East that is greater than the sum of the responsible...
The nation's "esoteric" law schools "fail to help the practicing lawyer," fumes E. Donald Shapiro. "They prattle about great principles, but who is helping the slob in Cedar Rapids?"
Robert Egan, the jester who chaffs with Helen and the Countess, affects an implausibly insouciant air, but derives more humor from his quibbling lines than one would have thought modern audiences could appreciate. Guy Kuttner, in another comic role, spatters the stage with grunts and gutteral gibberish as he pretends...
Drama wonks and music fanciers can find happiness devoting their lives to the very active drama and music societies (four productions his year), while those of more esoteric taste may find what they are looking for in the life drawing or the pottery classes, or as members of the bell...