Word: exoticism
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Most exotic of British sports is otter hunting with a specially trained pack of hounds. Streamlined as a small seal, the otter is fast as a dog on land, much faster in water. In the U. S., otter hunting has never become a formalized sport. If it did, it would...
Last year Manhattan's Columbia College seniors chose Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll as the woman with whom they would most like to be cast away on a desert island. Their scholarly reason: her ability to speak French. This year's senior class chose exotic Hedy Lamarr (née...
Like Occidental music, Chinese falls into two camps: classical and popular. Most of what U. S. listeners hear (in Chinatown theatres and restaurants) belongs to the popular type. But last week Manhattanites got a chance to hear samples of China's classical music played by the highest-browed of...
Most exotic: Isamu Noguchi's Radio Nurse, a grilled bakelite face-prettier as a radio than as a nurse. Most graceful: a brightly colored terra cotta mother and child by Waylande Gregory. Most arresting: José de Creeft's familiar strong and peaceful Head in Belgian granite. Most...
He recorded not only exotic sounds which the average zoo-goer never hears in a hundred visits but also such familiar noises as the rhythmic bleating of sea lions, broken by short, harsh, discordant barks, which sound like a few bars from Ravel's Valse. More sophisticated listeners preferred...