Word: esotericism
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Problem: how to drop an atom bomb from treetop level-and live to file a report. The solution of this esoteric flying problem is a scientific version of the "toss-bombing" that was used in the Korean war, when pilots of fighter-bombers released their bombs with an upward flip...
Zippers & Telephones. The wider interests of the Lancet's current editor, Dr. T. F. Fox−a medical-school graduate but never a practicing physician−are reflected in such salty recent discussions as the effects of contraception on the national IQ, the dangers of infection from public telephones...
One of the more esoteric cultural events of the summer--or of any time, for that matter--will take place here this evening, August 9, when the Summer School presents a film-adaptation of the Oresteia of Aeschylus in the original Greek language.
Debussy (Marisa Regules, pianist; Esoteric). Argentine Pianist Regules applies her precise and prodigious technique to six works by the great impressionist and to the special problems posed by the little Siena pianoforte (TIME, Aug. 29). The result is something special. The sound is not quite so singing as Debussy intended...
All Blood Is Red. Once Author Furnas deserts history far genetics, he goes off on some fairly esoteric, and often vague, tangents ("Families showing six-toedness as a recessive trait are a good rule-proving exception"). In a tone of things-I-never-knew-till-now, he announces several latter...