Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once upon a time in the 1970s, a question arose among the Bee Gee faithful: What's grooving at Harvard? A guy named James J. Cramer '77 (then hair-famous; now street.com smart) and Crimson pal Steve A. Ballmer '77 (then a turkey shoot victim; now a Microsoft billionaire) decided...
To discuss these structures, Scarry describes "the deep structure of perception" with the tools of philosophy and cognitive psychology, as well as literary criticism. The mechanisms of imagination are the focus of the book. Scarry classifies the actions of literature within the imagination of the individual reader, identifying five main...
"The hallmark of a good public speech is if it can convey good esoteric ideas to a public audience," Park said.
Hawking has worked to publicize his esoteric field with user-friendly books like A Brief History of Time.
She says it is hard for ethnic studies to be the basis for a broad-based movement, since it is more esoteric than other causes and sometimes difficult to explain to faculty and students.