Word: java
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clerk on a Dutch sugar plantation, Affandi was born poor in central Java, taught himself to paint. Beginning with a modest show in London's Army and Navy department store in 1952, Affandi has achieved global recognition as a rare original in a world where art fashion seems all too pervasive. Delighting in success, he happily toured the U.S. and Europe, but now prefers to stay home, except for occasional painting excursions to Bali. Much of his time is spent chatting with visitors in any one of five languages he has picked up in the course of his career...
...crop; yet one-third of Bolivia's population continues to live in the Andes, scratching a barely human existence out of dwindling tin deposits. In Indonesia, three-quarters of the nation's close to 90 million people live in cheek-by-jowl squalor on the island of Java, while most of neighboring Sumatra is left in jungle. But habit and human contrariness being what it is, few Javanese will even consider moving to fertile Sumatra. And in Uganda, tribesmen from the overpopulated hills, hopefully resettled in the lowlands by the government, frequently trek back home after their...