Word: exoticisms
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Though Mexico is next door to the U.S., though millions of U.S. citizens have seen it themselves, the country south of the border is still mostly a colorful legend. It is-to many Americans-unsanitary and exotic, the place where Aunt Clara got dysentery and watched dark-skinned boys dive...
The Seventh Seal (Swedish). The photography is lovely, the form obscure (a medieval morality play), and only those who react to the highly exotic will find the film unreservedly tasty.
Down at Dunster House, the humanities have taken on an exotic cast this year. An expert on witchcraft has just filled the room left by a tall African named Selbourne Mvusi, who was billed as a "Zulu artist." Of genuine Zulu origin, Mvusi produces sombre, impressionistic oils and mournful woodcuts...
The X Section of Widener, rendered exotic by its wire barriers and fabled contents, has long been of interest to certain elements of the Harvard population. To those who know, however, the "Cage," as it is affectionately called, is not as fascinating as generations of undergraduates have generally thought.
Marius Constant is a fast-rising 33-year-old Parisian composer with a peculiar aural defect: he can never listen to a single instrument without mentally hearing all the instruments of the orchestra. This gets so bad, he complains, that "even when I play the piano all by myself, I...