Word: exoticism
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The President addressed himself to two periods in Harvard's development and in the development of universities generally -- the mid-thirties and the present. He pointed up crucial differences between the two; referring to the student unrest of the sixties and early seventies as "bizarre troubles," he said that these...
This is an ambitious book. Rita Guibert, an Argentine and former LIFE en Español reporter, confronts the fact that though Latin American literature is now often acclaimed as perhaps the richest and most original in the world, it simply has not caught on with U.S. readers. Part of...
J.H. PLUMB CAME to Harvard in the Fall of to give a lecture on 18th century Britain. He lacked the exotic superciliousness conventionally ascribed to Cambridge dons; he appeared to be a short, erudite, well-dressed man, and he entertained his audience in a subdued way. Certainly his lecture was...
Mojavr flew his mother in from Iran to do the cooking. The exotic ambiance that her food lends to Hemispheres is unfortunately a bit chopped by the Hit Parade music that Mojavr plays. Still, the availability of a good meal for two at under $5 more than compensates for the...
Observing their 18-year-old brethren ordering "exotic drinks" at Charlie's on liberation night, they tell us of a mysterious alcoholic ingredient called "Quantro." (Like that old familiar red wine, Bojolay.) Worse still, they counsel the reader--and also, it seems, the hapless bartender at Charlie's--on "Mai...