Word: exoticism
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Harvard men will never have done deploring the lack of a planning board at the time Matthews and Weld Halls, and more recently Widener Library, were introduced like grotesque, exotic plants in a prim and hardy New England garden. Such a board has since come into being, and has already...
"One hundred African lions, 40 Bengal tigers, 20 leopards, 100 pumas, 150 black bears, 1,000 buffaloes, 500 elk, 500 deer, 400 wild boars, 400 peccaries, 40,000 ringneck pheasants, 10,-000 Hungarian partridges, 5,000 bobwhite quail, 400 wild turkeys, 400 wild peafowl, 400 wild guinea-fowl"-it was...
Professor H. W. Holmes, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, speaking Friday before the Vassar Alumnae of New England, declared: "Collegiate education should be education, not mere instruction." Purporting to escape the limitations of mere instruction, the tutorial system was established at Harvard. It has not been entirely successful...
There were two compensations for lovers of brilliance and movement. First, the costumes: Anne Roselle, as Tosca, for instance, appeared in the first act in a chrome orange satin skirt and bodice, a purple velvet jacket and hat, a bunch of crimson roses tied with baby-blue ribbon. Second, the...
Konrad Bercovici is one of these walrus-mustached foreigners who give a touch of the exotic to the reaches of the Hotel Algonquin, Manhattan. Two new books of his are on the autumn lists?Around the World in New York and lliana, a collection of gypsy stories. His play, Costa...