Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere in his education (at St. Paul's School and Harvard) young Garland had also acquired more ideas than he knew what to do with. But people were not so interested in them. One of Garland's ideas was that people ought to live together in simple peasant...
Apparently told not to play her siren straight, Miss Dietrich is naturally at a loss. By nature so sirenish that she is already practically a satire of a siren, she can scarcely be expected to kid herself. Her pretty posturing, pouts, stunned, exotic stares are meaningless when she tries to...
"Desensitizing" injections seldom work. Those who cannot stomach most ordinary foods should experiment with exotic dishes such as wild rice, zucchini, kumquats, papayas, chestnut flour, bamboo shoots, reindeer meat.
> Of Dancer Evan-Burrows Fontaine: ". . . in a repertory of exotic ballets, showing what a thin line divides the scamper from the dance."
This American suggests that disciples of Union Now [between the U. S. and the British democracies] consummate their exotic love affair personally and leave the rest of us out of it.