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Painting Priest. Hit of the show was Haiti's entry: 28 stiffly drawn, riotously colored genre paintings and still lifes by such esoteric unknowns as Hector Hyppo-lite, a voodoo priest who claims his brush is guided by St. John the Baptist; a 24-year-old ex-houseboy named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Surprises from All Over | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Now in its thirteenth printing, "General Education In A Free Society" achieves first honors as the 1946 best seller of the Harvard University Press. Concluding a year beset by paper shortages and printing difficulties, the Press nevertheless published 46 volumes, ranging from the esoteric "Spina Bifida and Cranium Bifidum" and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Press Lists 'General Education' as Chief 1946 Best Seller | 12/21/1946 | See Source »

That the sketches are still as bright as they are is a tribute to Arnold Auerbach, who wrote the book, for he has shown admirable restraint in keeping esoteric G.I. jokes to a minimum. Instead, he has relied on situations which are capable of convulsing anyone who is at all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/17/1946 | See Source »

Following a production of "I Was a King in Babylon" that shrunk some fifteen or twenty minutes with each presentation--and became, therefore, progressively incoherent--the whole concoction of "experimental drama" has reached a boiling point in danger of exploding the esoteric little test-tube--blowing obscure lines, allusive ripostes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 12/12/1946 | See Source »

General tendencies throughout the 17 year period reveal a steady decline in the esoteric Arts and Letters culminating in the middle of the war when these studies practically disappeared. There has been a slight comeback registered in this area since the end of the war.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Social and Natural Sciences Boom Since 1929 While Arts-Letters Fade | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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