Word: esotericism
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Seattle's fair, like all fairs, has its critics; they grumble that concessionaires are ignoring fair standards, that some states have made poor showings, that the cultural attractions are too esoteric, that the fair's approaches are a natural for traffic jams. But the fair, nonetheless, is a...
For instance: the heroine of this picture (Janet Blair), wife of a sociology professor in a small English college, is a witch. Having learned black magic from a sorcerer in Jamaica, she comes back to Britain laden with abracadebris (dead spiders, pickled fingers, esoteric herbs) and secretly begins to bewitch...
Britain's David Jones is a painter by inclination, but twice in his long life he has taken time out to write a book. In both cases, the books were highly unorthodox and highly acclaimed in esoteric circles. W. H. Auden called Anathemata (1952) "the best poem written since...
Few prominent Americans have been hated so much as Edwin McMasters Stanton, Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War. Stanton was vilified as the man who ruined the South by championing the vindictive Reconstruction Acts. Even today, an esoteric cult of historians stoutly maintains that Stanton planned the assassination of...
In some of Wilson's longer poems, one seems to be reading the pompous Latin hexameters of a precocious college class poet, translated by himself much later into would-be lively English. Thus the verse manages to suffer simultaneously from "if youth but knew" and "if age but could...