Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the five years that he lived in the village of Sayan, plump, apple-cheeked Colin McPhee, 45, never succeeded in getting Balinese to like American music. But the ancient Oriental melodies which they beat from bronze gongs and piped from bamboo flutes won his Occidental ear. His Balinese memoirs, published this week (4 House in Bali, John Day, Asia Press; $4), tinkle with a swirling eddy of music for. religious rites, shadow plays and joyful cremations...
Houdini claims to have won every Calypso "war" since 1920. The Calypso Carnival held on the two days before Ash Wednesday is now a major tourist attraction in Port-of-Spain, with each of the rival kings setting up headquarters in bamboo tents, and challenging each other to sing-downs composed on the spur of the moment...
...ignorance, he cannot see the need for scientific methods of agriculture, and continues to use cow dung for fuel instead of fertilizer. In his poverty he cannot afford to spend time in learning, nor rupees in buying anything to aid his production. He is born in a small bamboo shack, and after about thirty hungry years (if he is fortunate) he will die there...
...attempt to look like occidentals the actors appeared with built-up noses and shoes, actresses with built-up busts and behinds. But the translation was clear and faithful. Did the Jap audience get the anti-fascist point? The faces behind the calmly wagging bamboo fans gave no hint...
...long years of war, news from embattled China funneled through the tumbledown, mud-&-lath buildings of the Chungking Press Hostel. Last week, the last of the foreign-press corps followed the Central Government to Nanking. The bamboo-fenced compound looked as dreary and forsaken as an empty schoolyard-which...