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The traditional spring arts fest at Quincy House this week is slated to offer a wide-ranging display of talents ranging from the exotic to the homegrown.

Author: By Hyungji Park, | Title: Quincy Hosts Arts Festival | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Britain's love affair with the Indian subcontinent, in books, films and mini- series, is a quaint disease, a melancholy for everything exotic the empire has owned and lost. To a romantic imperialist brooding over his sherry, the decorous Indians, with their subversive good manners, impressive intellectual tradition and caste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rue Britannia My Beautiful Laundrette | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

E.M. Forster's A Room with a View is like A Passage to India in miniature. But in his later novel, the sexual hysteria loosed in Miss Quested by her visit to an exotic land results in major melodrama. Lucy's milder--and curable --case of the same malaise creates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Stroll on the Wilde Side a Room with a View | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Departments with fewer than two dozen students appeal to prospective concentrators for a variety of reasons--a desire for personal attention, the attraction of the exotic and the desire to learn something outside the regular. Jean L. Gee '86 chose to major in Statistics, which shares the distinction of having...

Author: By Cecile E. Kuznitz, | Title: Good Concentrations Come in Small Packages | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Ahab's chance comes in the unlikely meeting of medieval East and West, the cosmic collision of a band of luckless crusaders from oh-so-civilized Britain with the exotic chaos of Solong.

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The Heat Is On at the Hasty | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

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