Word: lush
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...before him, the Brazilian Indian's enemy is the white man-and the white man's ways. Throughout the country's vast and still largely untamed jungle, the Indian stands dangerously close to extinction. When Portuguese Sea Captain Pedro Cabral discovered Brazil in 1,500, the lush tropical land teemed with 3,000,000 Indians of some 2,500 tribes. Today its tribal Indian population is down to an estimated 78,000 and falling steadily every year...
Mimi, effectively played by the star Elaine Stritch, is surrounded by a bevy of brats. She's the social director, also in charge of civilizing the passenger's children. One delightful incorrigible, Alvin Lush, will not succumb. As they play and sing through an alphabet song, little Alvin changes the "s" in shore to "w," and, when the children form Mimi's name, old Alvin comes along and turns the "w's" upside down. A hot sketch that Alvin...
...Lush Market. With its U.S. Scotch profits, Justerini & Brooks can afford to treat its British wine customers in Bond Street fashion. At its Georgian-style shop, a customer is greeted with a glass of dry sherry and made to feel, as one well-aged J. & B. executive puts it, that "we have all the time in the world and want to spend it only with him. If a customer wishes, we will gladly spend an hour discussing the relative merits of Romanée-Conti and the first growth of Bordeaux...
...time scheme to record the one-day odyssey of a dipsomaniacal British ex-consul living in Mexico. The hero is at war with his half brother, his estranged wife, himself and, perhaps most pertinently, with modern civilization. The theme is what Lowry himself has dubbed "the migraine of alienation." Lush as a tropical jungle, the book alternates between fierce introspection and a hallucinatory evocation of the Mexican scene. When it was published in 1947, it received rave notices from serious critics but also made the lower rungs of bestsellerdom. Recently, it was brought out in Italy by Feltrinelli, the first...
Steppingstone to the Dodecanese Islands off Turkey is Rhodes, where, as one poet says, "the days drop as softly as fruit from trees." The old 14th century battlements, and the lush rhododendron and bazaars are worth savoring for a day or two (the Hotel Miramare is on a good beach, has private bungalows, charges $10 for a single room). Sailing up the chain, travelers experience even more the feel of how the Grecian islands are creatures of the sea, bound by myth and religion, commerce, a mystical aloneness: Kos, where Hippocrates was born; Patmos, where the monastery exhibits...