Word: esotericism
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"An heretic, my dear sir," he wrote, "is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about." Or: "Marriage is, perhaps, the only game of chance ever invented at which it is possible for both players to lose." Against religiosity, he thrust: "Too many people...
At one end of the narrow, smoky room, on a stage not quite wide enough for the show's five performers to buck without winging each other, the cast, backed by two pianos, lines out patter songs, monologues, ballads and production numbers (everyone onstage at once). The revue keeps...
If the acting is not unduly distinguished, and certain elements of stagecraft seem misguided, it still is very worthwhile in its attempt to put into action Brecht's conception of non-"theatrical" or "epic" drama. The most distinguished element of this production is the well-conceived blocking which gives movement...
Some reading is best done with closed eyes. That, at any rate, is the contention of the record industry, which this season has pressed the largest number of disks in history dedicated to " the "books that talk." The spoken word most effectively fires the powder train of the imagination in...
Part of the difficulty lies in America's propensity to believe that each super-weapon has somewhere a safely guarded and esoteric "secret." This tendency reached its extreme when recently a Congressman suggested that the Russians had stolen the "idea" of a space satellite from us.