Word: esotericism
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There must be a nagging fear, however, in the minds of skiing's entrepreneurs, that the boom may contain the seeds of its own destruction, for so much of the appeal of the sport in the past was esoteric. A skiing holiday was a kind of retreat and the jargon...
"Dirty, i.e. Esoteric"
John E. Collins, headmaster of the Newman Preparatory School, was the sole witness for the Attorney General's office. He testified that Fanny arouses "prurient interest" in a reader and that it is "hard core pornography." When Rombar queried him on his understanding of the meaning of prurient," Collins replied...
Though not claiming that Gen Ed could teach all these things, Finley suggested that a required program "at least tells the undergraduate that life is very long and can't possibly be handled only by learning this or that esoteric subject."
There must be a nagging fear, however, in the minds of skiing's entrepreneurs, that the boom may contain the seeds of its own destruction, for so much of the appeal of the sport in the past was esoteric. A skiing holiday was a kind of retreat and the jargon...