Word: esotericism
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The three plan to call their new magazine either "The Moon," or "The Lyre and Lute." "It will cost about 15 cents and resemble Punch a great deal," said Wiggin last night. "We aim to get away from the esoteric and the arty," he summarized.
The James family had a rare talent for striking up acquaintances with ghosts. In 1844, when Novelist-to-be Henry James was a year old, his genial papa, Henry Sr., was scared into "a perfectly insane and abject terror" by a shape squatting invisibly before him. For two years the...
Tom Pickering's sage comment cut two ways, of course. It might reduce an anti-modern-art splutterer here & there to temporary silence. It could also make those on the other side of the fence feel uncomfortably esoteric.
"Fish, Flesh, and Foul" is a sketchy treatment of a towering theme (the natural animal cruelty of the human species toward its young). Richard Webster's discussion of a Catholic scholar's views on the supernatural seems unnecessarily esoteric, especially the final note of doom that bids us all study...
This successful blend of faith and finance, according to Myra Kiimalehto, was at first administered jointly by Thor, her slight, pince-nezed Swedish immigrant husband, and ex-Methodist Harvey Spencer Lewis, former president of an "Institute for Psychical Research." Together they applied modern U.S. selling methods to a potpourri of...