Word: paradisiac
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...perhaps, that the world's most fabled paradises are being lost each day yet never seem to lose their paradisiac allure. Take Bali, for example, the Indonesian tropical garden visited this spring by President Reagan and the world. Every intruder on the island quickly registers its palm- fringed beaches, magical dances and golden native beauties out of Gauguin and then remarks that all these delights are being corrupted by a camera- toting crush of alien surfers, satyrs and souvenir hunters. The single most changeless feature of Bali, indeed, is this litany of laments. " 'Isn't Bali spoiled,' is invariably...
...islands' paradisiac features -notably its unspoiled beaches-have attracted a growing number of tourists. Last year 35,000 flew into the $14 million jetport on the island of Mahe. Although tourism has already replaced copra and cinnamon as the islands' source of foreign exchange, the President is determined that the Seychelles will not become "a nation of waiters." Says Mancham: "We have learned our lesson from the overcommercialization and human pollution that have spoiled much of Tahiti and the Caribbean. Here, no hotel will be built higher than a coconut palm." Viewed from such modest heights, the future...
...plan was as comprehensive as the Navy could make it. If it was adopted, the Pacific would become a filigree of 22 bases, stretching from Hawaii to the China Seas, from the barren Aleutians to paradisiac Samoa. Pearl Harbor would continue to dominate the military map. But the U.S. armored highway across the Pacific, which once faded out a thousand miles beyond Pearl, would henceforth extend to Guam and Saipan...
According to J. Edgar Hoover, also in Miami or on their way there were "the hoodlums of New York and Chicago. ..." When his investigators charged police of the Miami district with toleration and cor ruption, he sent twelve of his agents to paradisiac Florida, but not to play...
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