Word: esotericism
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Ten-Year Plan. Romains is one of the most prolific of living writers. When he started writing Men of Good Will, he had already turned out many volumes-Death of a Nobody, which won sincere critical praise, popular plays on the level of Broadway thrillers, poems, esoteric novels, mildly erotic...
Instead of using cosmic rays or esoteric mathematics for his demonstrations, Professor Ehrenhaft impressed the gathered physicists with little experiments a man can do on his desk with a glass of water, a magnet or two, a compass, some acid and some electric wires:
Last week a U.S. citizen clippered home from a four-weeks' London powwow with Rank bigshots, full of plans for a British blitz on Hollywood. The man: Manhattan's suave, swart lawyer Morris Ernst. New Dealish Ernst-who was also in Britain to carry out an esoteric "cultural...
A few days after 18-year-old Oona O'Neill had described her eight-month acquaintance with Charles Chaplin as "entirely on the esoteric side," the comedian packed sleek, sloe-eyed Oona into a car, picked up the certificate and a case of champagne at Santa Barbara, sped to...
You can publish news from the four million corners of the earth. Your staff of researchers can come up with answers to make John Kieran chew his nails. You can feed congressmen, governors, the FBI, even F.D.R. with the most esoteric dope. You can swing public opinion and sway private...