Word: esotericism
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Always, hotly competitive bartering went on, for such esoteric regionalia as jars of muddy water in which the U.S.S. Missouri had floundered off Virginia, Oklahoma snakewhips and Ford emblems missing from state police cars. The best traders, reported one, were from Texas; the worst, from Illinois ("you can palm off...
Since its inception in 1946, the Social Relations Department has acquired more stereotypes than any other infant of comparable age. Its detractors call it everything from an esoteric clique to a white-shoe meeting place, and its concentrators do indeed range to these extremes.
The program for a college orchestra always presents a problem that is rarely solved better than it was Sunday night. It is ridiculous for students to play the familiar symphonic items that everyone has heard performed by experts. But in the search for rare works college orchestras usually come up...
Efficient Edith Helm, White House social secretary, was momentarily nonplussed. At a press conference someone said he had heard that Bess Truman "used to beat even the boys at mumblety-peg when she was a child in Independence. She used to pull the peg out with her teeth, too." Quickly...
Thanks to a Broadway hit called The Cocktail Party (TIME, Jan. 30), his name at last was beginning to be more frequently encountered. Some of the higher-browed reviewers had called the play "esoteric." But the people who crowded to see it night after night were not predominantly highbrows (there...