Word: exoticism
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"Omnivorous and insatiable, [Picasso] helps himself, without scruple, from every pot in turn. Such are his abnormal digestive powers, that after only partial mastication, he will regurgitate each exotic titbit in a form but slightly distorted in the process ... A wily gastronome, he knows what's good for him...
Last week Bob Shaw was back in Carnegie Hall with proof that, wherever he has been sitting for the past 24 months, he has found some of the answers-if not yet all the right ones. For the first of an ambitious series of seven concerts featuring choral "masterworks" since...
Tea & Cats. The era Brooks finds confident did not begin very promisingly. In New York, Novelist Edgar Saltus and Playwright Clyde Fitch were turning out popular confections. Saltus believed that only three qualities mattered in fiction: "Style, style polished and style repolished." Fitch was a chameleon "who changed his color...
Where, in Brooklyn, could anyone discover such exotic creatures? In museums, where Marianne Moore loves to peer, and in such dependable sources as the National Geographic and the Illustrated London News. Like all true poets, she is an armchair explorer, her imagination serving as an inner eye. But anyone looking...
Most modern short story writers like to keep their tales within easy commuting distance of everyday life. Not so, Wilbur Daniel Steele, 65, who rejoices in being a reactionary and flavorful old fogy. Like Conrad and Maugham, he prefers to clamp a character in the vise of a strange situation...