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The movie, like the Festival, is a potpourri, ranging from Louis Armstrong's Dixieland Blues to the esoteric West Coast sound of Chico Hamilton. Jimmy Guiffre does his best piece, "The Train and the River," aided by Bob Brookmeyer. Thelonious Monk crashes through "Blue Monk." Anita O'Day does two...

Author: By Jonathan R. Walton, | Title: Jazz on a Summer's Day | 1/30/1961 | See Source »

The orthodox view of Christianity is that Jesus preached the same doctrine to all men-there was no inner circle of "initiates" with special knowledge, as in Gnosticism and the mystery religions. The minority, which holds that Christianity was originally esoteric, with secret teachings hidden from the masses of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Secret Gospel | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Behind Seven Veils. According to Clement, Mark, while he was with Peter in Rome, wrote ''an account of the Lord's doings" that presumably was the basis of his Gospel as it is now known. But he withheld those "doings" which only the initiated should have knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Secret Gospel | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Secret Codes. In these seven cases, considered the most serious by the Government, executives of the companies were charged with meeting in hotels under assumed names to agree on prices and bids. They used an esoteric system that they called a "phase of the moon" or "light of the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Best Way Out | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

Joan Baez will not be a great big seller. English ballads are pretty esoteric stuff to most buyers. But the record is of undeniable quality, and has some stunning moments. It proves what many have been mumbling into their coffee for some time: that Joan Baez can be, if she...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Joan Baez | 10/25/1960 | See Source »

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