Word: exoticism
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Your entertaining piece emphasized the exotic and the expensive. There are many of us who enjoy preparing good food at home, yet do not need and cannot afford $4 for one melon, $75 for a single class, or $65,000 kitchens.
With its splendid hoard of half a million words, the Oxford English Dictionary is the central bank of the language -a trove of Latinate abstractions. Old Frisian or Old French oddments, fubsy eloquences of Middle English and exotic intrusions from the Arabic. It contains a million and a half quotations...
But I didn't understand the faculty's reaction to my truth-seeking. I wasn't a troublemaker, just a kid doing my job. As I saw it, I was no activist. At the time, I had a friend-the principal's daughter, no less-who was a veteran of...
Some sent their regrets. Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Luis Alvarez, for example, explained forthrightly that he could not subscribe to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's exotic mixture of "religion, science, economics and politics." But four other Nobel prizewinners were among the 450 scientists, social scientists and theologians -many of...
The people of prosperous Santaland ate a lot and slept a lot and, gradually despairing of finding any use for their gifts from The Santa Corporation--gifts that began to fill their houses to over-flowing, for they had filled the whole year with Christmas and found they had no...