Word: esotericism
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Not since 1950, just before grand juries discovered that some of Bradley's stars were students not only of such esoteric subjects as music appreciation and square dancing but also point-shaving for gamblers, had Bradley sent a team east from Peoria to try its luck in the N.I.T...
Then there was singing, followed by toasts ("L'chayim!"-to life), followed by more singing, and the first of many talks by the Rebbe, during which everyone remained standing. The Rebbe spoke on the four levels on which, according to the Hasidim, the Bible is written: p'shat...
* A Hasidic term for leader, stemming from the Hebrew rabbi, meaning teacher. *An esoteric system of speculation on metaphysics which went in for much symbolical manipulation of words and names. The cabala originated in Palestine but came under strong Babylonian influence between 500 and 900 A.D. Its best-known work...
¶ Toughened up by energetic devotion to his career as a gentleman farmer, Northrup Knox, 28, of Buffalo, N.Y. and Aiken, S.C., demonstrated an almost tireless skill at the esoteric game of court tennis. After an afternoon's romp on the court at Boston's Tennis and Racquet...
Author Mary McMinnies, herself a charter mem-sahib (as wife of a Foreign Service official in Malaya), has a cold Waugh eye and ear for colonial types. The U.S. reader, however, cutting his way through the alphabet jungles of British officialese, should know that D.O.M. does not stand for some...