Word: jamaicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buccaneering days of the 17th century, Jamaica was the lustiest port of call on the Spanish Main. Out of old Port Royal, in its time the "wickedest city in Christendom," Henry Morgan and his marauding mates sailed to wreck and plunder. On their return, the pirates swaggered through the narrow streets with barrels of rum on their shoulders, harlots on their arms, daggers in their belts and ill-gotten pieces of eight in their pockets. An appalled visitor once described it as a place where "the body of a murdered man would remain in a dancing room until the dancing...
...last words: "God is white after all ... God is white!" This thickly peopled first novel, an arresting blend of hurt and humor, peasant piety and patriotic gore, goes far beyond the common run of Caribbean books. Author Sylvia Wynter, 34, was born in Cuba of Jamaican parents, educated in Jamaica, Britain and Spain, now lives with her husband, Novelist Jan (Black Midas) Carew, in British Guiana. Author Wynter complements the simple faith of her Jamaicans with their equally deep cynicism: they resignedly expect that everything−from religion to Marxist atheism−will let them down eventually...
Spain's Costa Brava, In five years ago, is Out now, though the Costa del Sol is still O.K. Out are St.-Tropez and Jamaica. In are Barbados, the Greek islands, and Sardinia, where the Aga Khan (very In) is building a resort. Southampton is In; Newport is coming back In fast, partly because of the Kennedys, who were married there at Jackie's mother's shorefront house...
...waiting room at Jamaica's Kingston airport last week gathered 122 lucky travelers bound for Britain. An attractive colored girl said: "I don't have a job there, but I'll find one. They say the British hate to work as servants or in other lower-class jobs." A thin, middle-aged man in a brown pin-stripe suit, sizes too large for him, anxiously clutched his one-way ticket (cost: $238). When the flight was announced, a child was lifted high to wave goodbye to its mother; a pregnant woman pressed forward for a last glimpse...
After whetting Muscovite appetites with some spicy excerpts from Dr. No, which is now being filmed in Jamaica, Izvestia devoted a black-bordered, two-column box to a character assassination of Fleming, who is President Kennedy's favorite mystery writer. Reported the paper breathlessly: "Fleming prides himself on his knowledge of espionage and villainy. His best friend is Allen Dulles, former head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, who even attempted (but unsuccessfully) to try methods recommended by Fleming in his books. Obviously American propagandists must be in a bad way if they have recourse to the help...