Word: esotericism
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But Vienna-born Director Marek (a lifelong opera lover and author of a Puccini biography) has an answer. He thinks Americans are frightened by serious music, and he wants to "unscare" them. His reasoning: if he turns enough honest dollars on things like Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical...
Soil in the Trouser Cuffs. Whenever a body is found after sudden, violent or unexplained death, one of the 24 medical examiners must be on the spot before it is moved. With routine examination of all bodies destined for cremation (to prevent destruction of evidence), this means that 20,000...
Curiously out of line with this goal, however, is an older rule requiring honors candidates to count every grade in every course they take in their field, no matter how esoteric the course or how far it may exceed ordinary honors requirements. While a poor grade in a "primarily for...
Jazz albums were fairly esoteric items until 1950, when Columbia's first Benny Goodman collection made a smash success. Since then, a dozen new jazz labels have sprung up (mostly on the West Coast), and by last week the major record companies were up to their spiral grooves in...
And although the aforementioned frogs never do reach the Bulletin's cover, their African brothers do in the cover article "Hunting Frogs in African Forests," which appeared in the issue of January 18, 1935. The apes, however, made the Bulletin cover twice: once on December 22, 1933 ("The Apes in...