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DiCara was the only pro on his team. The rest were enthusiastic amateurs, and even campaign manager Guenther had to be initiated into the arcana of Boston politics. But the volunteers had done well by him, and as the returns trickled in to demonstrate that he had not calculated wrong, DiCara became more and more pleased...
...Arcana. Certain key facts about the Hearings' experience remain obscure, perhaps purposely (what was their initial capital investment, for instance?). But there is enough specific information on such arcana as composting and stonemasonry to qualify their book as an authentic long-term survival tool, and to explain its current promotion in journals like the Whole Earth Catalogue. The most dedicated food faddist, though, might be put off his feed by the manner in which they dismiss milk ("The secretion of the mammary glands of cows, goats and sheep") and eggs ("the reproductive media of birds"). The one thing Living...
...write in 1946. It started with his notes on a trip to the islands off British Columbia. These became a short story. Then the story grew first into a novella and finally into an amorphous novel full of Lowry's preoccupations with alcohol, mythologems, cabalistic gewgaws and theosophist arcana. In 1957, two months before he died after a bout of heavy drinking, Lowry was still struggling to tame the surge of words and images...
...rush. Look up from your copy of Theories of Arcana in the Early Renaissance and stroke the goatee you had been contemplating growing...
...section, home of pulp fiction and an unrivalled assortment of detective novels which came from the library of an egyptologist named George A. Reisner '89. Reisner died during the war and left the University crates of material, crates that held no hieroglyphs. Instead, his bounty was the arcana of Rex Stout, Dashiell Hammett and the rest, all conveniently graded by the good professor. The Clue of the Bricklayer's Aunt got a B, but David Hume's Goodbye to Life received a straight A on the inside cover...