Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both islands, and a hundred volcanoes drift their smoke against the blue tropical sky. Indonesia bursts with resources, from copra and hemp to teak, tobacco and oil. The world's largest flower, rafflesia, with a diameter of 3 ft., blooms on Madura. The red-brown soil of Java (pop. 52,000,000), terraced with unbelievable ingenuity, produces two rice crops a year. The warm seas send long rollers crashing on the palm-fringed shores of Ternate, with its burgeoning fields of nutmeg and pepper; Sumba, with its fragrant sandalwood; Borneo, with its vast, barely tapped treasure house...
...voice has a pump-organ quaver and a soft adolescent fuzz on it, the phrasing is smooth, and the sentiments belting from the jukeboxes hit the pop fans right where they love to live...
Isabela because of overcrowding in mainland prisons. The day before they boarded Valinda, the prisoners mutinied. They raided the arsenal, disarmed the few remaining guards, then pillaged Villamil (pop. about 200), the island's administrative settlement. Loading their loot into a pair of stolen boats, 21 of them set course for the mainland, hoping for a chance to seize a more seaworthy craft en route; Valinda became their prize...
...years as a teacher in little (pop. 2,500) Lakeland, Ga., Mrs. Armstrong B. Baskin, 64, never aroused anything but praise in the community. A farmer's wife, she worked hard for her $3,300 a year, was well liked both by her elementary-school pupils and by their parents. Last week Minnie Lee Baskin was out of a job. Reason: she had outraged the sensibilities of Lakeland's whites...
...condition of her characters, who rely mainly on the bitter wine of unreciprocated love to keep their untidy and unhappy lives going. The setting is a radio station, apparently in Athens, and the characters are male news announcers and girl disk jockeys. A day-and-night jangle of pop love tunes plays ironic counterpoint to the staff's self-tortured prisoners of love. The narrator is a crippled male receptionist, a kind of latter-day Tiresias, blind to the purpose of his own life but preternaturally alert to the cross-purposes of all others...