Word: jamaicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...High Wind in Jamaica is a family picture with a ferocious theme. Like the quasi-classic novel written 36 years ago by British Author Richard Hughes, it is on the surface a conventional tale of piracy, kidnaping, and adventure on the high seas. And like the corrosive original, its deeper purpose is to fathom the psyches of seven stolen children whose innocence is only skin deep. Blood kin to the tykes in Henry James's Turn of the Screw or William Golding's Lord of the Flies, they are remote, ritualistic, amoral-natives of a savage Lilliput that...
...immoderately successful. In High Wind, he shrewdly sugarcoats every point, spinning his 19th century yarn in such lively style that only discerning palates will pucker at the aftertaste. His subjects are the Thornton children, a quintet of improper Victorians who, along with two Creole friends, are packed off from Jamaica to be properly educated in England. En route they are inadvertently abducted when their ship is hijacked and they wander aboard the pirate vessel, manned by a dissolute captain (Anthony Quinn), his raffish mate (James Coburn) and a crew of inept, superstitious ruffians...
...York City could use a few more like Judge Stout on our benches. PHYLLIS NEEDLEMAN Jamaica...
...ACTH, administering them to rheumatoid arthritics with such spectacular results (one woman left her hospital bed to go on a shopping spree) that he won the 1950 Nobel Prize for medicine, sharing it with two biochemists who had isolated the hormones; of pneumonia and diabetic coma; in Ocho Rios, Jamaica...
Even to New York. For East Coast students, San Juan and the Bahamas are big this year, along with Jamaica, the Virgin Islands and the Grand Strand of South Carolina, centered on Myrtle Beach. A discerning set likes Bimini (where they can sleep on the beaches), Guadeloupe and Tobago. By pushing four students into a double room at $15 for all, arranging cheap air flights, and serving free hot dog and barbecue lunches, Bermuda helps a student get by for less than $100 a week...