Word: esotericism
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Among the many mysteries of life, none is more baffling than the mechanism by which impulses from the brain are transmitted along nerve fibers and eventually to muscles, so that thought is translated into action. Some research ers have concentrated on the chemical aspects of the mechanism, and, because they...
The first chapter, in which he announces these prejudices, makes good reading. Here Geismar says some bitingly accurate things about James--things which most of us, at one time or another, have wanted to hear. He begins his literary ambush with the declaration that this "writer was not a major...
Barnes, 36, arrived fresh from a twelve-year engagement at the University of Kansas, where he was resident carillonneur, professor of carillon and harpsichord, and curator of rare musical instruments. He brought to Washington the sort of vellum-bound humor acquired in his esoteric calling. "A good organist can adapt...
Once, only professionals risked their money at the perilous pastime of making such esoteric guesses as how many potatoes would bud, the quality of hog bellies, the size of the soybean crop, and the number of cocoa beans on Ghanaian trees. But after tasting quick profits with the glamour stocks...
Frozen Force. In piling up his ele gant string of credits (among them: 13 Hitchcocks, six Markhams, scripts for General Electric Theatre, Alcoa, Goodyear, Schlitz Playhouse), Writer Silliphant has become known as television's thinking man. His scripts, say his devoted admirers, may occasionally be a little short on...