Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Food and sex. Sex and food. Chicken in coconut milk-vatapá-then a white night under the stars. These constitute life in the Brazilian state of Bahia, according to its most celebrated writer, Jorge Amado. They are also the fixed points in the remarkable history of his latest heroine, Dona Flor...
...hand. But could that be a Yank accent? It was indeed. John Steinbeck Jr., 22, son of the late novelist, has dropped out into a dingy Saigon flat in order to follow his yen for Zen. His teacher: Nguyen Thanh Nam, a mystic generally known as the "Coconut Monk," after his habit of meditating perched atop a palm tree in the middle of an island in the Mekong River. Young Steinbeck and his guru have pursued the cause of peace by presenting U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker with a peeled coconut, and were last seen marveling at the white elephant...
White Against Black. Through the centuries, Cochin's Jews have adopted many Indian religious traditions. Mortar for the walls of their synagogue was mixed with coconut water, which Hindus use for sacred occasions. The ceremonial dress of a Cochin Jewish woman is a heavy gold brocade sarong and blouse, worn by Malabar Indian women at weddings. But the Cochin Jews have stoutly preserved their religious Orthodoxy, even though the community so far as it is known has never had a rabbi. (Many isolated Jewish colonies in India get along without rabbis...
...were about to die under murderous machine-gun fire even before they could splash ashore. From the air, Tarawa looked like a peaceful string of jade beads carelessly tossed on a dressing table. Each of the islands surrounding the lagoon is a bit of equatorial sand and coral nourishing coconut palms, breadfruit and pandanus trees. But on the bird-shaped island of Betio at the end of the string, the scars of war may not be erased for 100 years. Surprising evidence still remains of the ghastly battle fought on the half square mile of all but forgotten real estate...
...that have been buried beneath the sand for a quarter-century. It all came back, Sherrod reported-"the sweetly sickening smell of death given off by thousands of bodies rapidly rotting in the tropical sun, the sight of an island stripped of every one of its many thousands of coconut trees...