Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He prospered. As his herds grew, so did his scale of living. He built himself a mansion which was the showplace of Wyoming: a 20-room structure of brownstone and pine lumber with a towering cupola, newfangled plumbing and acetylene lights. Impressed, the Indians took to calling him the Big...
Individualism v. Economic Law. The title of The Yogi and the Commissar, a collection of 16 essays, mostly on writing and politics, fits the book like a glove. For Koestler believes that every thinking man today is threatened or tempted by these two polar figures. On the extreme Left stands...
Slowly, as they came to bloody grips with their exotic enemy, Americans were beginning to realize that to the Japanese mind (an entity utterly alien to them in culture and almost as uncontemporary with them as Neanderthal man), the Emperor Hirohito was Japan. In him was embodied the total enemy...
Only the Saudi Arabian princes, wearing burnooses and traveling in limousines supplied by Standard Oil, lent an exotic touch. Spotting the Arabs at the Opera House, a glamor-hungry spectator sighed: "This is more like it." For the most part the San Francisco conferees wore drab, diplomatic grey and black...
When darkness fell, the click of locks and latches betrayed the arrival of the gentle nightly burglar; and often there was a series of high shrieks as the cook (who suffered from "an unfortunate hereditary malady") chased his sister around the Women's Bible School with a knife. "Being...