Word: esotericism
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These esoteric oddities remind one that Brecht wrote this unusual play forty years ago, when he was in his early twenties. The young dramatist's Communism was as yet embryonic: The Chicago slums provide the location for his play, but only occasionally does he instruct his well-fed audience to...
One last resort for frustrated bug planters is a special mike attached to a sharp spike; driven through the wall, it vibrates with the surface on the far side. But, like esoteric radar beams that pick up the vibrations of distant window glass, spike mikes are apt to be defeated...
The esoteric world of theoretical physics went into spasms of enthusiasm last week when Brookhaven National Laboratory announced the identification of a new elementary particle. It is not the biggest particle known or the smallest, and it lives only one ten-billionth of a second. But physicists all over the...
There are only 399 whippets registered in the U.S., and the breed ranks 58th in the roster of favorite U.S. dogs -well behind the first place poodles (147,055), and even behind such esoteric canines as Vizslas (589), schip-perkes (937) and keeshonden (989). And this, plus Ricky's...
Only one course is given on the language and culture of Brazil for undergraduates. Even this course is not exclusively devoted to Brazil: it treats Brazil and Portugal together and is only open to students already familiar with at least one other Romance language. Apparently the department feels that only...