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Schools with HUT programs have been able to enrich their program by providing more courses. Because these courses--for example, a game-theory course in a Newton junior high school--are frequently esoteric, they are best taught by college students with information about new fields fresh in their minds.

Author: By Richard L. Levine, | Title: Undergraduate Teacher Program Faces Problems of Acceptance and Expansion | 4/24/1963 | See Source »

"The Poet at Second Base" is not so esoteric, but it is difficult to decide whether to take Dawson's far-fetched metaphor seriously.

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: The Lion Rampant | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

Japanese Ichthyologist Motosaku Fujinaga was still a senior in Tokyo University when he decided on his life's work: a study of the life and loves of the 6-in., shrimplike creature known as the kuruma prawn. Dr. Fujinaga's selection was more than an exercise in esoteric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marine Biology: Cultured Prawns | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

"May I show you how I stand on my head?" said the fiddle player to the Premier. Then both removed their shoes and jackets and went upsy-daisy to discuss the esoteric art of yoga. It was peppery Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, 76, paying a courtesy call on Violinist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 22, 1963 | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

Many of us who read and loved The Catcher in the Rye in the tender years of adolescence are puzzled by the new J. D. Salinger. We took Holden Caulfield to heart because he was our friend, betrayed and maltreated like us by an insensitive world. But the Glass family...

Author: By Charles S. Whitman, | Title: More on Seymour | 2/28/1963 | See Source »

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