Word: exoticism
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On the surface, perhaps it's justified: there are coed dorms here, even coed bathrooms, and everyone talks about sex all the time. You will be able to tell your parents Harvard sex stories that will shock them. But as always with such things, the talk outweighs the action. Harvard...
Chinese scientists read every scientific paper published by foreign earthquake researchers. They also pay close attention to exotic prequake signals-including oddities of animal behavior-so far largely overlooked by other nations. Before a quake in the summer of 1969, the Chinese observed that in the Tientsin zoo, the swans...
Amoral Pleasure. When Englishmen of Smith's generation (he is now 44) started looking to America, what caught their eye was less the painterly heroics of abstract expressionism than the "media landscape"-to borrow a phrase of the day-from which Pop art was sprouting. Though as a painter...
Udall split with Lyndon Johnson on Viet Nam as early as 1967, but foreign policy is not his strong point. Favoring detente in principle, Udall argues, along with Scoop Jackson, that the policy must be a "two-way street." He is hawkish on the side of Israel, which he visited...
Associate Editor Mayo Mohs brought similar journalistic dedication to this week's story on the beer industry (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). A beer connoisseur since college days, Mohs has savored on his travels such exotic brews as Red China's official Tsingtao and a Thai beer called Singhe, which...