Life in the island was a mixture of recondite rituals and a pagan lifestyle.
At 1,500 campuses and 10,000 schools, students, teachersand sometimes parentsobserved Earth Day by studying such previously recondite subjects as hydrocarbons and acid .
But five years ago, it could hardly have been guessed that a master's thesis on this recondite subject, published under the conservative imprint of the University of California .
Mainstream Pop Amid Smaller, Obsessive Passions Saturday at Bonnaroo started with the explosive and recondite and opened out gradually, over about twelve hours, into open, cool-headed, mass sing-alongs.
June 16, 2013 - New York Times