Word: esotericism
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Genevieve (Rank; Universal-International) comes under the heading of Very Special Jokes-even among the British, who made it. It may thus be assumed that the large U.S. movie public, which dislikes esoteric humor and is leary of many British brands, is not going to laugh itself hoarse at this...
Though he made haste, he had an intuitive awareness of his people's gait. The old Turkish alphabet had become an esoteric nightmare of cumbersome Arabic scrawls; its difficulty contributed to illiteracy at home and incomprehensibility abroad. Kemal talked first to U.S. Educator John Dewey, then sat down with...
At the Edinburgh Festival, a new play by Poet-Playwright T. S. Eliot opened to advance notices that it would be crammed with as many esoteric meanings as The Cocktail Party, his 1950 hit. The Confidential Clerk seemed to say that a man is happiest if he follows in his...
For music lovers, the long-play record has produced a top bonanza. New titles are being issued at ten times the rate they were on 78-r.p.m. disks. The new records also seem to deserve credit for broadening tastes. Where Chopin's Polonaise and the Boston Pops recording of...
Other noteworthy new records: four of Handel's works for Ancient Instruments and Soprano, with Valarie Lamoree and the Pro Musica Antiqua of New York (Esoteric); Haydn's Seasons, with the RIAS Symphony, choirs and soloists conducted by Ferenc Fricsay (Decca. 3 LPs); seven evocations Of Gods and...