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Another excellent conversational ploy is to pose an esoteric question and then rapidly answer it oneself (having, of course, looked up the answer beforehand), e.g., "I wonder what the expectation of life of, say, an advertising agent of thirty really is-at this moment of time, I mean." This, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blitzleisch v. Rotzleisch | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Doctrinally, Tibet should be ruled by two lamas: the Panchen Lama, whom esoteric Tibetans believe to be Buddha's spiritual reincarnation, and the Dalai Lama, Buddha's temporal reincarnation. Actually, the Dalai Lama and his priests have been running Tibet since 1924, when they expelled the Panchen Lama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Which Half of Buddha? | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

Charley Christian, Jazz Immortal (Esoteric; 2 sides LP). A little of the disorganized noise from Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, where bop came into its own, plus some agile string-picking by the late great Goodman guitarist.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

Evocative, humid, esoteric, synoptic anecdote-where does Mandel get this stuff? It sounds like he's been sitting up all night with Thirty Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, by Dr. Wilfred Funk.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Evocative? | 4/27/1951 | See Source »

The Advocate is admittedly writing for a limited (and literary) audience. But by printing material on so esoteric a subject as Hall's it would seem that it is limiting that audience too much; no matter how effective Hall's case, it will appeal only to people who have the...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: On the Shelf | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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