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It exudes "the feeling of a sort of car battery," in the words of its designer. But instead of battery acid, the $5.9-million extension of the Fogg Art Museum--plans for which were unveiled this week--will contain galleries and offices for the Fogg's departments of Ancient, Oriental...
Despite his country of origin, Arkady is not the customary exotic beloved by lending-library readers. For too long, detective fiction has been populated with deliberately unusual sleuths-omniscient priests and wonder rabbis, black, Oriental and Indian investigators whose ethnicity is more important than their cases. If Arkady has any...
NONFICTION. Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske. Seven essays on the city where art and science flourished and the seeds of tyranny were planted. China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston. The second book by the author of The Woman Warrior, about growing up Chinese in...
Although almost everyone agrees it is difficult to adjust to the lack of men, some Wellesley students believe that the introduction of men would sully the beauty and serenity of the campus. Women point to the expensive yards of Oriental carpeting in the living rooms, the numerous expensive grand pianos...
None of these productions involved Asians in their script-writing, direction, or major roles. As in the exotic creations of Jordan Marsh and Bloomingdales, images of Asian peoples and cultures are being invented, manipulated, and presented by non-Asians for their own profit and entertainment. Thus, the Suzie Wong stereotype...