Word: esotericisms
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O.K., is all that clear to everybody? Of course it isn't, except to fairly serious sailors. What it is, approximately, is Skipper Bus Mosbacher's explanation of what his Intrepid crew does when rounding a buoy on an America's Cup racecourse. Taking such esoteric language...
Audacious Whispers. Beardsley's figures often seem to be whispering audacious obscenities to each other. What they might be saying is suggested by his only novel, Under the Hill, which employs a curious mixture of four-letter words and effete and esoteric Gallicisms. Recently published by Grove Press ($3.95...
Let me warn you against the idea that the Chinese specialists have some esoteric or mythical wisdom they can give you. I don't think anybody here buys that anymore. A China specialist is a fellow who's trying to work on this problem more than other people are, but...
Because love is there, Queen Allen is also the most esoteric rage in sophisticated London. Bridget, an art student, found her three years ago, moved in to look after her, and last year, in hopes of raising money to supplement Queen's $37-a-month-old-age pension, invited...
In that respect, the testing is proceeding at a pace never before felt in the history of American literature. Two generations ago, many poets were at work in the U.S.-probably a greater number of major poets than at present -but their world seemed narrower. The literary quarterlies spent more...