"You can't tolerate a system that allows people to mislead or obscure," said Gary Lutin, investment banker at Lutin & Company.
"I can't deny it is obscure," said Dworkin, who lives in Irvine, Calif., and admitted to spending five figures to accumulate more than 100 cards.
The history is a bit obscure, said owner Peg Laron, but it was partly built in the early 1950s, most likely as a fishing camp.
Milberg "reads voraciously, and that reading points him to figures who are understudied or obscure," says English professor Esther Schor, who has used the collection on Jewish American writers in her research and courses.
"Whaling is unprofitable and survives only with substantial subsidies, something cultural and nationalist arguments for whaling obscure," said Patrick Ramage, the director of the animal welfare fund's whale program.
"I'm getting so many e-mails from poets who are saying this is a very exciting moment for poetry, an art that seems obscure," said Ms. Alexander "Hopefully it now gets a little more of the attention it deserves".
While the village, 62 miles east-northeast of Springfield, is happily obscure, said its mayor, Bob Biram, it has had at least one other interesting occurrence: During the Civil War, according to local legend, a young man now known as Grandpa Hicks fought for the South, while another youngster, Grandpa Benson, chose the North.
Although Mundell's conclusions seem obvious to most modern economists, in the early 1960s "that kind of research was considered weird and obscure," says Rogoff.
The latter could include the famous as well as the obscure, said Lynn Sarko, the Seattle attorney administering the Exxon Qualified Settlement Fund.
"It became a catalyst for the energy to begin growing again among local artists who had remained obscure," said Swift, now community arts coordinator for the city.
