Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Frenchmen have a natural distrust of living anywhere except in France, but the poster swayed the schoolteacher and his wife. It showed a colonial couple, elegant in tropic white, taking their ease in a banana grove, while eager natives bustled at tasks around them. "Young people," assured the poster...
The rest of the book is a close-up of a paranoiac in a jungle clearing, screaming revenge on her whole life, while the tropics close in like an ant horde and nibble her to death with minor misfortunes. Her children struggle to break free of the inner jungle of...
When the war came, the Conants generously allowed the Navy to administrate its V-12 school from the house. The Colonial-style home was immediately transformed into a "ship." A twenty-four hour watch was stood, and classes for midshipmen were held over the same mahogany table where the Overseers...
The exterior is in keeping with the Business School's traditional colonial architecture, while the interior is modern, with artificial light and filtered air.
The result is as modern as next year's car and as variegated as a Mexican market scene. Near the entrance looms an impressionistic statue of ex-President Alemán which bore such an odd resemblance to Joseph Stalin (see cut) that the sculptor had to do some...