Word: jamaicas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jetliners and the pride of American Airlines-rose dramatically, boosted by its new turbofan engines. At about 700 feet the jet banked smoothly to the left in accordance with its flight plan, then veered sharply, almost rolled over completely-and plunged nose first into the tidal marshes of Jamaica...
...flight recorder carried by all jetliners to record moment-to-moment data on a plane's altitude, speed, gravity forces and direction. But after two days, the flight recorder of American One had not been found, and it may keep its secrets hidden forever in the muck of Jamaica...
...unlikely candidate has addressed himself to this huge task: Richard Hughes, a 62-year-old Welshman, known mainly for a single, classic novel published in 1929, A High Wind in Jamaica (called The Innocent Voyage in the U.S.). Since then, like his compatriot, E. M. Forster, he has become a conspicuous example of that 20th century phenomenon, the great novelist who does not write novels. The Fox in the Attic, his first novel in 24 years, is the first installment of a grand design, The Human Predicament, intended as a fictional study of the demonic forces that shattered the ancient...
...collection of children's stories to his credit in 61 years. But Hughes shares the confidence in his genius that has been expressed by eminent men (T. E. Lawrence, Yeats, Graves) since his undergraduate days at Oxford, whence he was graduated with minimal honors. A High Wind in Jamaica was far more than just another story of children; it was a philosophical fantasy with a cutting edge, seeking to overthrow long-held sentimental notions of childhood, arguing that in reality children are fearful, secret, ritualistic, and innocent only in the sense that savages are innocent...
...paraded them alternately in the weeks before his departure. But when he got to Madras, he found the humours of the place unhealthy and climbed back aboard the same boat that had brought him. In London again, he misbehaved as before, and was packed off again, this time to Jamaica. But there were no openings in the Jamaican bar. William returned to Blasted Bet and Silver Tail...