Word: exoticisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A self-made architect who got his schooling in offices, Timothy Pflueger is all for "Pacific Architecture" as a reality, believes "it's too damned bad we didn't have the Oriental influence on the coast instead of the European.'' As President of the San Francisco...
The finest paintings in Knoedler's show, however, were those by Eugene Delacroix, whose monumental Journal was first translated into English last year by Walter Pach (TIME, Nov. 1, 1937). Last week's visitors saw his superb painting of the great violinist, Paganini; studies for some of his...
The conductor appears as composer in two so-called "Nature Poems," orchestrated last year from a set of three written in 1919. This curiously un-vital music consists of a slight Pastoral and a more amusing Bacchanal, composed in a rather wayward French style, uncommonly exotic for an Englishman. The...
Into the broad bay of Beirut, on whose shores St. George is said to have slain his dragon, among the dirty fishing feluccas off Genoa and Leghorn, past the ruined English mole into Tangier, into Oran and Salonika and Jaffa and many another exotic port, push a string of fat...
Harvard's theatrical group is the butt of frequent criticism for its policies in general and its choice of plays in particular, which often seem exotic and unpleasant to undergraduate palates. Criticism, however, arises from a misapprehension of the Society's limitations and functions. Since Boston possesses the second most...