Word: exoticism
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Ravel: Schéhérazade (Suzanne banco, soprano; Suisse-Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Three lovely songs with luxuriant orchestral accompaniment: Asie is an extended sigh for the exotic pleasures of the Orient; La Flute Enchantée is played with caressing delicacy by the beautiful slave...
But then in his sophomore year at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa he took Professor Orrin H. Smith's physics course. Under Smith, particles became a whirl of whizzing elephants and bouncing basketballs, and science a series of problems involving such exotic matters as Joshua's stopping...
In Bandung's dusty streets, fezzes mingled with turbans, longyis with Bond Street suits. A swirl of exotic prophets, devious schemers and earnest advocates swarmed in from afar to urge their causes. Resplendent in a red tarboosh and black gown, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem materialized like a...
Among the top are Clare Potter, whose sleek, ladylike clothes are done in dramatic colors, priced a notch above McCardell's; Tom Brigance, an exponent of fit and form, who "constructs" clothes with a feminine look for the small, rounded figure; Vera Maxwell, whose simple clothes have an English...
For a country of lively anticlericalism. Marxist polemics and half-empty churches, France has some surprising reading tastes. The bestseller of the last ten years, reports the current issue of Les Nouvelles Litteraire, is The Little World of Don Camillo,* Italian Author Giovanni Guareschi's famed series of stories...