Word: esotericism
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Even to the casual eye it may be evident that here was a master in whose best work such idols of esoteric art as William Blake or even Picasso might have found a source of daring line and composition.
Paul is the author of the best-selling The Life and Death of a Spanish Town, of two best-selling murder mysteries, and of three worst-selling novels (Indelible, Impromptu, Imperturbe). He is the ex-coeditor of the esoteric expatriate magazine, transition, and an expert on boogie-woogie and the...
There is apt to be very little more jute (or burlap, which is made from jute) for the U.S., and no abaca (Manila hemp). Those facts may sound esoteric to the layman, but they have the U.S. Government-and all who know about jute and hemp-in a frenzy.
*A one-volume, popular edition ($3.50) of Admiral of the Ocean Sea has been condensed to 671 pages by cutting out esoteric nautical data, pages of notes, a chapter on the origin of syphilis, other interesting superfluities.
Sucker has no plot and needs none. It is just Fields trying to peddle a scenario to Esoteric Studios. He reads a scene, then plays it. Upshot: a maelstrom of slapstick, song, blackout. episodes, old gags, new gags, confusion. That much of it is truly comic is testimony to the...