Word: esotericism
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Journeyman is limited to 1,475 numbered copies. Probable reason for this publishing tactic is fear of Vice Suppressor John S. Sumner, who had the Viking Press haled before Magistrate Benjamin Greenspan more than a year ago on a charge that God's Little Acre was lascivious, lewd, indecent...
Numerous members of the Harvard faculty have profited by the hot summer days to produce various large, learned, and esoteric books on their various fields. Prominent among these are William L. Langer '15, associate professor of history who has prepared a volume on the middle nineteenth century entitled "Liberalism, Nationalism...
Tight Britches suffers from an attempt to make it a second Tobacco Road, a sociological study of the hardy and poverty-ridden Anglo-Saxons of North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountain country. So esoteric is the idiom that a glossary is included with the program. "Swivvetty" means nervous; "upscuddle...
He sponged on acquaintances in England, Scotland, Wales, often on the point of starving, making enemies, running up debts, a "haggard, shabby, shy, priestly-visaged individual" with a bitter tongue, a growing obsession that there was a conspiracy against him. Attracted by his esoteric learning, his writings, his often brilliant...
There must be many thirty-eights on that subway train flashing by. In ones and twos and threes. From Hartford, Conn., Philadelphia, Pa., and Okmulgee, Okla. And from Roxbury, East Boston and Revere. Come to leap into the meat-chopper. Come to wear their young lives away on Andromache and...