Word: esotericism
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Last week a show of his singular, science-inspired visualizations enlivened Manhattan's super-surrealistic Art-of-this-Century gallery. Executed in brilliant, Van Gogh-like splashes of color, they show objects (mostly humans) as they might look if broken down to their cellular essentials. Likewise, they show Painter...
The good company of men of literature and science spoke their minds frankly in ten sessions of vigorous debate. Keynoted Chairman E. M. Forster (A Passage to India): "[After the war we should] insist on less secrecy in public affairs. . . . The world today has become a darkened room with more...
Labor Lawyer, Waldman's autobiography, is an esoteric jumble. It includes an account of labor's struggle for recognition ; a Socialist's eye view of New York politics over the past quarter-century; a sketchy but sometimes revealing gallery of such radical and liberal greats as Leon...
Luckman and Hope. In his travels (he still requires all Pepsodent executives to spend at least one-third of their time in the field), Chuck Luckman sold the men who sell the product. His latest projects are more esoteric: to make druggists love Pepsodent he has 1) engaged Industrial Designer...
To most Americans Andre Gide's name means little. Only a handful of intellectuals have long enthused over his most famous novel, The Counterfeiters (a complex study of Parisian youth), his unblushing autobiography, If It Die, and his perennial personal Journals. But last week it looked as if 1944...