Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most exotic U.S. allies in the Pacific theater of war are the Australian aborigines, coal black and little touched by civilization, who have shown an uncanny ability to track lost soldiers and airmen in the savage wastelands of Northern Australia.
> Fidel Velázquez, a sincere and able democrat, replaced exotic, eloquent, brilliant Vincente Lombardo Toledano (a school mate of the President's who still calls him by his first name) as secretary of Mexico's most powerful trade-union alliance (the C.T.M.). Under Velázquez the...
Most exotic group of convicted objectors (7%) were Negro "Moslems," who discard their "slave names" when they embrace their new religion and presently get new ones (like John Jones Bey) from Mecca. Their reason for refusal to serve was simple: In Mecca, war has not been declared.
Jane Avril was described by English Critic Arthur Symons as having "the beauty of a fallen angel; she was exotic and excitable. ..." Lautrec's biographer Gerstle Mack described her differently: "She never allowed herself to lapse into vulgarity. ... Her friends were generally writers or artists, cultivated men in whose...
> "Bait" adjectives and phrases are banned. Merchandise cannot be referred to as "exciting," "glamorous," "exotic." Such extravagantly worded expressions as "Definitely a Must-Have For Your Wardrobe" and "Blessed Foot-Bliss in Superbly Styled Slippers" are forbidden. Even such shopworn lures as "latest fashion" and "new spring style" are out...